Top 100 Quotes About Euro
#1. 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.
Lucas Papademos
#2. The euro is a hybrid of a fixed exchange-rate regime, like the 1980s ERM or the 1930s gold standard, and a state currency.
Yanis Varoufakis
#3. So if the euro, if Euroland is to become a reserve center, if the euro is to become a reserve currency, Euroland will have to have a deficit in its overall balance of payments.
Robert C. Solomon
#4. We still believe that if the Russian Federation and the United States bring their minds together, we can develop a common system which would be efficient in protecting the Euro-Atlantic region from threats coming outside this region.
Sergei Lavrov
#5. I became the first ever Euro-continental champion in WWF history. Well, besides D-Lo Brown, but he doesn't count.
Kurt Angle
#6. The Aegis Ashore sites in Poland and Romania are designed to counter long-range ballistic missiles that may be launched from other nations, outside of the Euro-Atlantic area, against our European NATO partners.
James A. Winnefeld Jr.
#7. The very notion of Great Britain's "greatness" is bound up with Empire,' the cultural theorist, Stuart Hall, once wrote: 'Euro-scepticism and littel Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people understood whose sugar flowed through English blood , and rotted English teeth.
Andrea Levy
#8. Tunisia is extremely dependent on economic conditions in Europe, which is why it also experienced shockwaves from the euro crisis.
Alvaro De Vasconcelos
#9. Euro-American colonialism, an aspect of the capitalist economic globalization, had from its beginnings a genocidal tendency.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
#10. 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.
Lucas Papademos
#11. 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.
Walter Kasper
#12. When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances.
John Major
#13. If I had a euro for every stupid thing I've done, I could buy the Mona Lisa.
Stephanie Perkins
#14. 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.
Jim Cantalupo
#15. We have no intention of leaving the euro. In no way will we experiment with the future of our country.
Nicos Anastasiades
#16. Stories are invented: Juncker wants to introduce the euro everywhere or immediately deepen the EU - although I publicly stated the opposite that same day.
Jean-Claude Juncker
#17. There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank.
George Osborne
#18. A country outside the euro zone cannot have a veto over countries in the euro zone.
Francois Hollande
#19. Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.
Barry Eichengreen
#21. The shadow of an exit of Greece from the euro zone takes on ever clearer shape, repeated apparently final attempts to reach a deal are starting to make the whole process look ridiculous. There is an ever greater number of people who feel as if the Greek government is giving them the run-around.
Sigmar Gabriel
#22. Integration is the most important asset Europe has, and the key component to European integration is the euro.
Anibal Cavaco Silva
#23. After the accession to the euro zone, interest rates declined substantially in Portugal.
Anibal Cavaco Silva
#24. The euro will raise the citizens' awareness of their belonging to one Europe more than any other integration step to date.
Gerhard Schroder
#25. Chances are the movements of the euro as against the dollar will be relatively moderate.
Robert C. Solomon
#26. But I would bet that the euro continues to exist and that its importance as a global currency will likely increase.
Peer Steinbruck
#27. We will do everything to change what needs to be changed, fight against recession so that the country meets its targets, while reinforcing our country in the heart of the euro and the European Union.
Yiannis Stournaras
#28. 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
Anthony Seldon
#29. 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.
George Will
#30. As far as the international issues are concerned, the most important thing is the state of the transatlantic relationships, Euro-Atlantic relationships: how to develop them and how to strengthen them further.
Marek Belka
#31. We have the EURO as a currency, which means a lot. It has not just stabilized the situation in Kosovo politically and economically, but also facilitated the direct contact that we have with Europe.
Ibrahim Rugova
#32. 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.
Lucas Papademos
#33. For a small, open economy like Cyprus, Euro adoption provides protection from international financial turmoil.
Jean-Claude Trichet
#34. Germans tend to forget now that the euro was largely a Franco-German creation. No country has benefited more from the euro than Germany, both politically and economically. Therefore what has happened as a result of the introduction of the euro is largely Germany's its responsibility.
George Soros
#35. Not all Greeks are ready to do whatever is necessary to stay in the euro.
Mario Monti
#36. If Europe could figure out a way to do the euro, I feel confident we can do this.
Mindy Kaling
#38. The most important initiative you could take to improve the world economy would be to stabilize the dollar-euro rate.
Robert Mundell
#39. The Italians are very strong defensively. They showed in Euro 2000 how good defensively they are.
Alan Hansen
#40. The presidency of the Euro group is an interesting and important task.
Wolfgang Schauble
#41. Within our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. Believe me, it will be enough.
Mario Draghi
#42. There is no better protection against the euro crisis than successful structural reforms in southern Europe.
Mario Draghi
#43. Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor.
Jamie Dimon
#44. It will not be possible to solve the current crisis with euro bonds.
Angela Merkel
#45. If we are going to approach the euro area as a zone with a harsh line in the middle between AAA and non-AAA, between the north and the south, no way are we going to move forward.
Jeroen Dijsselbloem
#46. Argentina won't be at Euro 2000 because they're from South America.
Kevin Keegan
#47. We won't make the weak stronger by making the strong weaker, as a very wise man once said. That applies to the economy as well. If Germany were less competitive, the euro area as a whole would lose, because less could be produced then.
Mario Draghi
#48. The euro is going to be a big source of problems, not a source of help.
Milton Friedman
#49. By the way, the European Union Member States together - even the euro area Member States together - are by far the biggest contributors to the IMF.
Jose Manuel Barroso
#50. I think that France has not made it clear enough recently to our German friends how important it is to introduce euro bonds as a tool against speculation. And how the necessary budget discipline needs to be accompanied by growth.
Francois Hollande
#51. I would rather carry around a plastic bag with five thousand Euro inside, than carry around a Louis Vuitton/Gucci/Prada bag with only one hundred Euro inside!
C. JoyBell C.
#52. I was sure we would never see the adoption of the Euro. Countries giving up their currencies for a common tender was, it seemed to me, completely out of tune with currency being a carrier of people's cultural identity, celebrating national heroes and events, as it had been for hundreds of years.
John Naisbitt
#53. I just don't accept that there is a trade off between trade and democracy ... what we've got now is an institution that has utterly outgrown its roots which were noble ... the real difference was the introduction of the euro.
Ruth Davidson
#54. It [the Euro] is a decisive step towards ever closer political and institutional union in Europe. Above all, it is political.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
#55. Euro Disney is not my vibe. I can't really deal with Disney, man. It's not my thing.
Jamie Campbell Bower
#56. At Euro '92 itself, we bowed out to the eventual winners, Denmark, in our final group match.
Michel Patini
#57. 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.
George Will
#58. We have been in recess since July, and during that time there have been a fuel crisis, a Danish no vote, the collapse of the Euro and a war in the middle east, but what is our business tomorrow? The Insolvency Bill [Lords]. It ought be called the Bankruptcy Bill [Commons], because we play no role.
Tony Benn
#59. In both the U.S. and Europe, the budget and balance sheet numbers do not work. When 'off-balance sheet' promises are taken into account, the U.S. and most countries of the Euro zone are insolvent.
Paul Singer
#60. The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.
Angela Merkel
#61. With respect to Euro-Atlantic integration, we have to realize that we need to normalize the relationships with our neighbors, and especially with Russia.
Bidzina Ivanishvili
#62. I have never said I would adopt the euro. Not today, not tomorrow, not in five years. We will introduce the euro when it will benefit Poles and Poland.
Ewa Kopacz
#63. You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed.
John Major
#64. And what is the reaction of the British politcal class? Well the Lib Dems, still think that the Euro is a success! I don't quiet think where Cleggy gets this from, I don't know. Prehaps he is cosidering an alternative career, as a stand up comedian, once he's out of politics.
Nigel Farage
#65. The key problem is the debt restructuring in the euro zone. As long as the debt burden is not reduced, there is no chance of the weaker EU countries regaining competitiveness.
George Soros
#66. You've got some very powerful countries: Poland, the United Kingdom, Sweden and others who have a genuine desire to see the euro zone straighten itself out. It's good for all of us, whether you're in the euro zone or not, to make sure that it doesn't lead to a fracturing.
Nick Clegg
#67. If we do not resolve the euro crisis, we will all pay the price. And if we do resolve it, we will all benefit, particularly German taxpayers and savers.
Mario Draghi
#68. Everybody says Steve McManaman played on the left for me in Euro 96 but he never played on the left. The one time he did play on the left was against Switzerland.
Terry Venables
#69. As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.
Jonathan Sacks
#70. The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity.
Bernard-Henri Levy
#71. So when you are faced with a decision on the euro, it is not surprising that many people are confused. They still try to squeeze the euro debate into the old language. But deep down it is a matter of deciding where one's future lies. It is a matter of political will and courage.
Romano Prodi
#72. I'm a great supporter of the European Union. I didn't support entry to the Euro, not because I'm against it in principle but because I didn't think it was economically right for Britain. But that doesn't make me any less pro-European.
Gordon Brown
#73. Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon.
Nick Clegg
#74. Our future begins on January 1 1999. The euro is Europe's key to the 21st century. The era of solo national fiscal and economic policy is over.
Gerhard Schroder
#75. We only have a Plan A. The acceptance and full implementation of the existing plan, the so-called Plan A, is the best solution for Greece, for the euro zone and also for creditors and holders.
Evangelos Venizelos
#76. The bigger worry for him is if Danish banks and pension funds lose faith in the peg and start to sell euro assets to hedge their currency risks. "It is more important for Danish authorities to convince people in Denmark that they keep the peg than foreign investors," he says.
Anonymous
#77. Europe must dissipate any doubts over the euro, affirm that the euro is an irreversible project and act in consequence.
Mariano Rajoy
#78. 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.
Evangelos Venizelos
#79. 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.
Frankie Boyle
#80. I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.
Alice Walker
#81. Germany would be the biggest loser in a euro breakup.
Peter Bofinger
#82. It is virtually impossible for what you are voting on to remain as it is currently. There could be huge changes to the treaty and there could be huge changes to the euro zone itself.
Nigel Farage
#83. I hope Greece is going to remain in the Euro zone.
Victor Ponta
#84. I was trained as journalist never to use the word 'I,' never to put my own opinion there. In fact, if you had a dollar or a euro for every time I use the word 'I,' you would be a poor person. But this is not true in general. I like the idea of being able to stand away and make a judgement.
Suzy Menkes
#85. As a wheelchair user, you can't move about freely. That's the only thing that bothers me a little. When I'm in the Euro Group in Brussels, colleagues who want to talk to me have to come to me. But I hope they know that this has nothing to do with arrogance.
Wolfgang Schauble
#86. 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.
Carlos Ghosn
#87. 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.
Radovan Kavicky
#88. 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.
Nigel Lawson
#89. At this time - we're in a dramatic crisis - euro bonds are precisely the wrong answer. They lead us into a debt union, not a stability union. Each country has to take its own steps to reduce its debt.
Angela Merkel
#90. The euro is good for Europe. But only if there is flexibility all around.
Milton Friedman
#91. It's in our interests that the euro is a successful, strong currency.
George Osborne
#92. There is an interior style we intellectuals and design policy wonks know as Haut Euro Pooftastic, which really takes the biscuit.
Peter York
#93. Anna, Anna," Josh interrupts. "If I had a euro for every stupid thing I've done, I could buy the Mona Lisa. You'll be fine.
Stephanie Perkins
#94. 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.
Lucas Papademos
#95. I can understand countries don't want to join the euro, but they cannot impede the consolidation and strengthening of the eurozone.
Francois Hollande
#96. As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.
Barry Eichengreen
#97. I am personally convinced - and I think the Greek people share this belief in a fundamental way - that we can achieve fiscal consolidation more effectively and we can restore competitiveness in a more fundamental and permanent way within the euro area than outside.
Lucas Papademos
#98. 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.
Tarja Halonen
#99. We already have a federation. The 11, soon to be 12, member States adopting the euro have already given up part of their sovereignty, monetary sovereignty, and formed a monetary union, and that is the first step towards a federation.
Joschka Fischer
#100. There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency, and scoreless sports ties are boring.
P. J. O'Rourke
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