Horst Koehler
Horst Koehler
Horst Köhler; born 22 February 1943) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union, and served as President of Germany from 2004 to 2010. As the candidate of the two Christian Democratic sister parties, the CDU and the CSU, and the liberal FDP, Köhler was elected to his first five-year term by the Federal Assembly on 23 May 2004 and was subsequently inaugurated on 1 July 2004. He was reelected to a second term on 23 May 2009. Just...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth22 February 1943
CountryGermany
We must express the fact that we respect others but also that we do not accept violence and destruction.
Looking forward, we welcome the Turkish government's goals of continuing to reduce inflation, and ensuring sustainable growth.
I have not come to the fund to turn it upside down, ... But...there is a further need for change, and even accelerated change.
The euro is heavily undervalued, and in my view it is also clear that intervention cannot be a taboo,
The IMF supports the decision of the Turkish authorities to float the lira,
The IMF should work with capital markets, not against, ... It is not the function of the IMF to over-regulate but to ensure risks of capital flows from turbulence are contained.