Question: According to our opinion poll, a huge majority of Slovaks don’t want to help Greece. They also don’t support the European Financial Stability Facility and the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism. Why should they pay for the bad budgetary control of EU countries or too much risk-taking by the banks?
Trichet: Being a member of the euro area creates a lot of interdependencies, which are some of the advantages of the single currency area. Of course, the loans agreed to help finance the adjustment must be based on strong conditionality, which today is defined by both the European and the international community.