Question: Mr Duisenberg, you stressed again the phrase: “for the foreseeable future”. Could you explain more explicitly what it means. Is it just a diplomatic phrase not to say that you want to say anything or could this foreseeable future end on 21 January 1999? Duisenberg: We do not put a horizon to our future that we can see.
Contrary to you, I come from a very flat country where we can always see the horizon which is very far there. So it certainly does not imply any date as you indicated that will be the end of our foreseeable future.