If you have the resources that the United States has, with a currency recognized everywhere, as well as its power and strength, you can still impose yourself for a while without taking the right measures. However, for all the other countries, it's necessary to establish the right mechanisms and resources. It's not easy.
It also means standing up to the public sometimes. I used France as an example. Everybody there wants to have their cake and eat it too. They have some of the best public services, but they're the most indebted. They are juggling that, and no one can seem to get out of it. It's a completely crazy political debate.
So we need to get our finances in order and be able to conduct the political debate, I think, properly—that's what was noted earlier—but at the same time, we mustn't take populist measures that deprive the government of its means to act over the medium and long term.
