francine: michael fuchs, a close ally to chancellor angela merkel joins us on the phone. dr., thank you for joining "the pulse." what do you make of this german criticism that low interest rate is hurting a lot of your savers. mr. draghi says this criticism makes matters worse. michael: as a matter fact, mr. draghi also acknowledge that the low interest rates is difficult for insurance companies and so on. pension funds, they are really suffering. didhe end of the day, it not really boost the economy in those countries in the southern hemisphere. the problem is in those countries. they did not do enough reforms. what i would expect them to do is to push them for more reforms. low interestney, rates is obviously not helping too much. so, i'm expecting the ecb to press the southern hemisphere countries in order to do the necessary forms because reforms at the end of the day will lead to a better economy. i'm afraid it is not at the moment and therefore, we need to do something immediately, pressure from draghi would be great. francine: i'm sure that president draghi would love