so a question when you're addressing within the context of the banking union this relationship between sovereigns and banks, are sovereigns riskless or not? >> we'll take two more. >> thank you. i wanted to come back to the leadership -- >> and former u.s. deputy trade representative. >> that's right. i wanted to come back to the leadership question that we started with, because it's critical for dealing with a host of challenges about u.s. and europe and a lot of the other partners are facing. going into the election, it was anticipated that the far right and the far left would make gains. so i don't think the result was wholly unexpected. at the same time, the concern that i saw was not that we didn't know who was going to emerge as the likely candidate for the presidency, but that there was no consensus how that person, he or she, would be chosen. so member states have said it's our decision to make. members of parliament have said no, it's the will of the people expressed in the elections. so let's be constructive, what is the constructive way forward and how soon do you think this

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addressing in the context of a banking union, the relationship between sovereigns and banks, are sovereigns riskless or not? >> we will turn. >> i want to come back to the leadership. >> the deputy trader presents. >> in the leadership question, it is critical for dealing with a whole host of challenges in the u.s. and europe, going into the e election was anticipated the far right and far left would make gains, it was not wholly unexpected. the concern i saw was not that we didn't know who was going to emerge as the likely candidate for presidency but there was no question he or she would be chosen. the member states have said we could read the lisbon treaty, it is our decision to make. members of parliament have said it is the will of the people as expressed in the elections so to isabelle kumar's term let's be constructive. what is the constructive way forward and how soon do you think this question can be resolved so we don't have a situation of a lame-duck commission, we don't have the president of the council on foreign minister to take terribly long. >> i want to add information that

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bank. you need this kind of safe euro zone asset. and i would argue an element of fiscal uniond what is implied in a fully fledged banking unit. upon eurozone unemployment insurance system could form the embryo of such a fiscal union. and finally, more democratically accountable central bank for the broader mandate, something akin to the mandate of the u.s. fed. so responsibility for price stability but also growth and unemployment. the problem with everything i've just said is that that requires more, not less europe. as time goes on, it's becoming harder to make the case for more europe. anyone following europe and political scene can appreciate that. europe increasingly is now defined by the constraints that it places on governments. rather than the opportunities it provides them with to improve the lives of their electorates. and the longer this continues, the greater the likelihood that we see a serious european backlash, not just europe but the eu more broadly. i think there are two solutions. one is to jump forward to a more federal politically europe within the euro zon

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union fiscal backstop, right? separating the sovereign from the banks, which simon emphasized. and second, to reestablish the no bailout clause. and i think this, right, is the formula for solving the problem of maintaining defenses for the union against blackmail from the periphery without creating fiscal moral hazard for the states. so let me leave it at that. and we'll come back to some of these other points in discussion. >> great. that's terrific. thanks. i'd like to move on to the political aspect now. because obviously the economics is highly political. you know, we have had what five or six years, five years of this crisis now, very low growth throughout europe. very, very low inflation heading toward deflation. at the end sort of the robust growth or dealing with some of these issues. and that sort of brings us, i think, to last week's, you know, elections that we saw rise in populist movements. but it was a strong sort of signal. and so i'd like to turn to david renne. but prior to that, you were the brussels bureau chief for the economy. so you've seen it on both side

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