Euro Quotes

The euro is going to be a big source of problems, not a source of help.

Germany's problem, in part, is that it went into the euro at the wrong exchange rate that overvalued the deutsche mark.

One unanswered question is whether a Euro-Islam that combines Islam with democracy will be possible in the future. We mustn't confuse desire with reality.

I can't blame Angela Merkel for saying she wants a strong euro.

Historically, the host nations do well in Euro 2000.

European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.

Another question has been raised rather widely in Europe, in Japan as well as in the United States is what, to what extent will the euro become a reserve currency.

So Europe's a big driver. And at one point, if the euro hadn't devalued, they would have been making as much money as the US with half the stores. Returns were higher.

The Eurozone die is cast. Countries must withdraw from the euro so that governments can create their own money once again, and resist creditor demands to carve up and privatize their public domain.

Every match in the Euro is a dance on a razor's edge.

Not all Greeks are ready to do whatever is necessary to stay in the euro.

The EU is mired in deep structural crisis. Greece, Portugal and Ireland cannot survive inside the Euro.

The euro is good for Europe. But only if there is flexibility all around.

The battle of the euro is being fought right now in Spain and Italy...The future of the euro is at stake in the next few weeks...

The Italians are very strong defensively. They showed in Euro 2000 how good defensively they are.

It will not be possible to solve the current crisis with euro bonds.

After the accession to the euro zone, interest rates declined substantially in Portugal.

Integration is the most important asset Europe has, and the key component to European integration is the euro.

Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.

The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.

It [the Euro] is a decisive step towards ever closer political and institutional union in Europe. Above all, it is political.

Is Europe going to be breaking? I don't think so. I think the euro will stay. I think at the end of the day Europeans will find the solutions in order to hold Europe together.

The vast majority of Greeks accept the need for reform and want to keep our country inside the euro zone.

Greece is a medium-sized country in Europe. Our debt accounts for only 2.5 percent of the total of all members of the euro zone.

We need to put in place an economic system of governance for the euro-zone.

In order to consolidate the euro we need to harmonise our economic, fiscal and social policies, hence we are going toward greater integration.

The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a political rather than a merely geographic expression.

The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair.

The euro will raise the citizens' awareness of their belonging to one Europe more than any other integration step to date.

Europe must dissipate any doubts over the euro, affirm that the euro is an irreversible project and act in consequence.

I think the funds that have been pledged at Euro Summit combined with the outcome of the private sector involvement process should be sufficient in order to support financially the Greek economy.

In the 20 years before Greece end up with the Euro, efforts to improve competitiveness through exchange rate and adjustments resulted only in temporary gains of competitiveness.

I think it's often discussed that leaving the Euro is an option for Greece. I think this is really not an option.

Our membership of the euro is a guarantee of monetary stability and creates the right conditions for sustainable growth. Our membership of the euro is the only choice.

As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.

You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed.

When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances.

In the end, the British didn't vote to leave because of the euro. They're not even members of the currency union. Even the refugee crisis hardly affected the country.

Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor.

Euro Disney is not my vibe. I can't really deal with Disney, man. It's not my thing.

It is the entire euro zone system which is under threat at the moment, not just a few small countries anymore... Our euro is under threat. The changing situation needs a quick and immediate reaction.

No, a euro referendum will not be part of a government programme if we get the chance to form one.

Indeed, the creators of the euro envisioned it as an instrument to promote political union.

the euro, it seems, is stuck in a political no man's land – trapped between two opposing world views. And the battleground is not economics, but ethics.

Theory of public goods. Theory that if I take you euro (as an elected state government) and give fifty cents back... you will be happier and I will be satisfied.

Let's stop kidding ourselves that Greek debt is the Euro's key problem. With Greece gone, who's next ?