•  How is a currency of that kind assessed on the international currency and financial markets? Those questions are far from easy to answer. The financial markets are apparently having particular difficulties in recognising the new currency’s potential.
I am aware that there are no prizes for originality to be won at the moment by insisting that the euro has the potential to appreciate. But that statement nevertheless remains correct, as I would like to explain in detail shortly. In passing, I should like to call to mind the situation a few years ago when the dollar was hitting all-time lows.