now a forum on the european financial markets with jurgen creutzmann. he spoke at this event associated with the free democratic party. this is an hour. >> welcome. i'm delighted that you all could join our invitation today. i'm klaus gramckow. i want to welcome the viewers of c-span today. it is a great pleasure to have you with us. feel obliged to say what we are doing here with the friedrich naumann foundation. it's the foundation associated to one of the german parties, in this case, the free democratic party in germany. we have offices in 60 countries all over the world where we promote democracy building and human rights. of course, it's very hard to do in washington, d.c., so i'm the head of a project called transatlantic dialogue project. the name basically says what we are doing. we're trying to create dialogue among decision makers on both sides of the atlantic as well as in washington to see in brussels and berlin. for these reasons we are delighted to welcome the member of the european parliament, and he is here this week on his own initiati