The principle ‘one person, one vote’ thus reflects the fact that even though they are originally from different countries of the euro area, the members of the Governing Council act completely independently and not as representatives of their country.
It was you who testified before a parliamentary comittee last year that you had warned the two previous governments that the crisis would come – but they didn't do anything. True. When the financial crisis started in the USA, I believed that it would come across the ocean and hit countries with large imbalances, like Greece, the hardest.