Interview Dutch Central Bank president and ECB's Klaas Knot

Dear reader,

after Mr Knot gave an interview to German newspaper "Die Welt" on Saturday 20th, he was interviewed live¹ on Dutch public TV (Nederland 1), where he elaborated not only on the announced OMT program of the ECB, but also gave insights concerning:

- The situation of Spain and Spanish banks (and whether PM Rajoy should apply for ESM or not)
- The situation of Greece
- Imbalances in the EMU (he was ruling out "transfer union")
- Latest summit results and banking union
- The need and time frame for financial support of Southern Europe
- The re-positioning of the IMF re fiscal multipliers and sensibility of austerity
- The Dutch housing market
- Dutch dependence on exports to other EMU countries
- The current lack of consumer confidence in NL


Interview "Die Welt":
ECB's Knot backs call for EU commissioner (The Telegraph, Oct 21st 2012)
ECB’s Knot Backs Schaeuble Call for Stronger EU Budget Power (Bloomberg, Oct 21st 2012)
"Draghi ist unsere Stimme" (Die Welt, Oct 21st 2012) #
Notenbankchef Knot:"Ist die Preisstabilität gefährdet, greifen wir ein” (Die Welt, Oct 20th 2012) #


Interview Dutch public TV:

Uitzending gemist: Buitenhof Oct 21st 2012 (video, approx 30minutes) *
(note: Microsoft (c) Silverlight 2.0 required) 

(First part of program is with Klaas Knot and approx. after 30 minutes other guests talk about privacy protection)



# = German , * = Dutch language

¹= assumption of this author

related article:
Rutte calls for budgetary discipline commissioner (europeanvoice.com, Sept 8th 2011)