Quotes About Euro

Our position in Europe is not negotiable. The Greek people will defend it by all means. But participation in the euro involves rules and obligations, which we must consistently meet. Greece belongs to Europe and Europe cannot be envisaged without Greece.

The euro is a vital issue for Germany. There is no other country that derives as much benefit from the common domestic market and the monetary union as Germany.

After Euro 2008, football in England was shattered for a bit, and people were losing interest in following England.

Everyone who votes for us will know that a Northern League government would get rid of the euro and move back to a national currency.

You could see how money is different all of a sudden in Italy when they had the lire and now they have the euro. So they, in a revolutionary way, have gone from bad money to good money comparatively. But what about the rest of the world?

The euro was born with great hopes. Reality has proven otherwise.

the newly elected government was told in effect that they had no choice: accept the conditions or your banking system will be destroyed, your economy will be devastated, and you will have to leave the euro. What does it mean to be a democracy, where the citizens seemingly have no say over the issues about which they care the most, or the way their economy is run?

The only thing worse than an Aussie or Kiwi intonation is its intermittent use. When it's Auckland talking, or Melbourne, fine. But when a snatch of downunder drawl erupts from the mouth of a Euro, it's like blood in your urine.

Taxi, monsieur?" "No, thank you." Keller slipped a five-euro note into the valet's outstretched hand and set out along the street.

In 2012, we had just won the league with City, and I was really high on confidence going into the Euros when I picked up an injury, which meant I couldn't go.

The 'in' campaign will attempt to scare people into believing that if the U.K. were to leave, investment and jobs would move abroad. They are as wrong about that now as they were when they warned that this would happen if we did not sign up to the Euro.

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

Even I'm a bit surprised with how easily I've adapted to European football.

The Germans argue - and I can fully understand them - that the euro countries must surrender their sovereignty, because that is the only way to implement budget discipline in a fiscal union.

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

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

For my generation, the monetary union has always been about forging peace.

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.

The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity.

The English are worried about the Euro being brought in because of loss of national identity and rising prices. In Scotland, people are just worried in case they have to close Poundstretcher.

A very difficult year is ahead of us. We must continue our efforts with decisiveness, to stay in the euro, to make sure we do not waste the sacrifices and do not turn the crisis into an uncontrolled and disastrous bankruptcy.

I remember the European Championships in 2004. Wayne Rooney was a special player in that tournament, and I definitely cried when we got knocked out then.

We cannot allow the bankruptcy of a euro member state like Greece to turn into a second Lehman Brothers.

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