Quotes About Euro

I think as a business it would be amazing if the euro was to collapse, but financially and economically I think that would be a bit of a tsunami for everybody to cope with.

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.

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.

Britain is not in the single currency, and we're not going to be. But we all need the eurozone to have the right governance and structures to secure a successful currency for the long term.

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

We must stress that the euro has been beneficial to the European Union because, otherwise, in this context of international turmoil, every country would have to devalue their currencies.

I see us very much at the heart of Europe. We are founding members of the single market; we are founding members of the euro.

The euro ceases to exist the moment that France leaves.

The dollar is a winner. The euro is a tie. Get off the dime, Europe, and play to win.

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

Brown responded that he could not conceive of recommending that Britain join the Euro to advance his own prospects at the expense of the economic interest of the country

The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.

Germany would be the biggest loser in a euro breakup.

It's political glue inside Europe to keep it together - the euro is the best thing going for it since the creation of the common market.

Our problem as a country is that most of us do not want to join the euro, and we wish to stay aloof from the common frontiers of the free-travel Schengen area. This makes our relationship with the E.U. fraught with tension and trouble.

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.

Within our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. Believe me, it will be enough.

It's the invincible arrogance of Europe's elites that gets me. These are people who have seen the euro collapse. These are people who are presiding over a migration crisis on their borders, and yet do they ever acknowledge that they need to change? No. They say they need more integration, more of our money, more control over this country.

We will do whatever we could do to keep Greece inside the euro and inside Europe.

Greece has to stay in the euro.

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

The uncontrolled increase of the euro rate vis-a-vis the dollar threatens employment growth in the euro area.

I take office during the most difficult moment in the country's recent history. The country can be saved - it's up to us. I think it is obvious for those who support this government to undertake the commitment and ensure that our country's euro membership is not endangered.

At the time of the formation of the euro, I would say most American economists said that's not a good idea; that's not a currency area that makes sense. And the answer from Europe was, 'How is Missouri and Mississippi a currency area?' But the flaw in that was not recognizing the importance of mobility.