Single Market and the Euro interviews
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Jean-Claude Trichet

European Central Bank President 2003-2011

Governor of the Banque de France 1993-2003

'It was a bet. A very powerful bet... I think there is no other incredible illustration of history in the making. That says a lot about Europe. Of what Europe is able to do and what Europe can do when it feels that history is at stake.'

Meeting of the Kangaroo group in Strasbourg © European Union, 1995
Confirmation hearing of Jean-Claude Trichet as the next President of the European Central Bank, Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, 11 September 2003 © European Union, 2003
Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs meeting with ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet, 30 November 2004 © European Union, 2004
MEP Christa Randzio-Plath presenting her book to Jean-Claude Trichet, 27 April 2004 © European Union 2004
Jean-Claude Trichet speaks at formal sitting of the European Parliament in Strasbourg on the twentieth anniversary of the euro, 15 January 2019 © European Union, 2019