Quotes About Eurozone

#1. Our eurozone partners have made it clear: The choice is between staying in or getting out of the eurozone.

Lucas Papademos

#2. Very serious mistakes were made by previous governments, and Greece was ready to be abandoned by its partners and to leave the eurozone, which would have created total catastrophe.

Antonis Samaras

#3. The politics of banking is bad everywhere, including UK. Eurozone has more problems, unhealthy symbiosis.

Anat R. Admati

#4. Berlin has traditionally backed a rules-based eurozone in which every member state is responsible for its own finances, including bank bailouts, with political union limited to a fiscal overlord's possessing veto power over national budgets that violate the rules.

Yanis Varoufakis

#5. For some reason, lots of terrible things start here and then spread. The Cold War was one. It didn't start in Berlin - it started in Athens in December 1944; the contagion in the eurozone started here in 2010. We are perfectly capable as Europeans of messing things up unnecessarily.

Yanis Varoufakis

#6. I can understand countries don't want to join the euro, but they cannot impede the consolidation and strengthening of the eurozone.

Francois Hollande

#7. It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.

Vaclav Klaus

#8. The euro has become a means by which superior German productivity is able to gain an absolutely unbeatable advantage over the whole eurozone territory.

Boris Johnson

#9. While holding the eurozone together will be costly and difficult and painful for the politicians, breaking it up will be even more costly and more difficult,

Barry Eichengreen

#10. The Eurozone has clearly gone spectacularly wrong, pulling down all the continental economies.

Timothy Garton Ash

#11. I thank all of those deputies who supported the government and gave it a vote of confidence. I believe each of those votes represents a responsible decision to avoid placing our country's membership of the eurozone in danger.

Lucas Papademos

#12. The European Union that emerges from the Eurozone crisis is going to be a very different body. It will be transformed perhaps beyond recognition by the measures needed to save the Eurozone.

David Cameron

#13. The goal of the government is to guarantee the place of Greece in the eurozone against those who want to undermine it.

Yiannis Stournaras

#14. We're very proud to be part of the eurozone. But this comes with obligations and it is crucial we show the world we can live up to those obligations.

George Papandreou

#15. Many have wondered if Greece's economy would get so bad that it would eventually break away from the Eurozone - a move that could encourage other countries to follow and therefore splinter the currency union.

Jens Nordvig

#16. The Greek people today voted for Greece to remain on its European path and in the eurozone.

Antonis Samaras

#17. Anyone who toys with the idea of cutting off bits of the eurozone hoping the rest will survive is playing with fire.

Yanis Varoufakis

#18. The participation of our country in the eurozone is a guarantee for the country's monetary stability. It is a driver of financial prosperity.

Lucas Papademos

#19. A Syriza government will respect Greece's obligation as a eurozone member to maintain a balanced budget and will commit to quantitative targets.

Alexis Tsipras

#20. I believe the ones who stand up for what we say, which is stay inside the Eurozone, try to fix some things in the memorandum and try to help Greece get out of this mess without leaving the Eurozone, without leaving Europe.

Eva Kaili

#21. Europe is creating the flight of refugees that's tearing it apart politically, and leading rightwing nationalist parties to gain power to withdraw from the Eurozone.

Michael Hudson

#22. The eurozone status quo is neither tolerable nor stable. Mainstream economists would call it an inferior equilibrium; I call it a nightmare - one that is inflicting tremendous pain and suffering that could be easily avoided if the misconceptions and taboos that sustain it were dispelled.

George Soros

#23. We believe that what they call "Grexit" [a Greek exit from the eurozone] is not an option for us.

Antonis Samaras

#24. Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.

Yanis Varoufakis

#25. Greece wishes to be part of the eurozone, but it must, of course, go through with the necessary reforms to make this happen.

Angela Merkel

#26. Whatever new arrangements are enacted for the Eurozone, they must work fairly for those inside it and out.

David Cameron

#27. More cuts were needed to avoid exiting the eurozone.

Lucas Papademos

#28. I can confirm that Poland should become a eurozone country, and not just because of the treaties that have been signed, but because I consider it of strategic interest both for Poland and the E.U.

Donald Tusk

#29. We must break up the eurozone. We must set those Mediterranean countries free.

Nigel Farage

#30. The heart of the matter is that the very nature of the European Union, and of this country's relationship with it, has fundamentally changed after the coming into being of the European monetary union and the creation of the eurozone, of which - quite rightly - we are not a part.

Nigel Lawson

#31. We all have our problems and we are working to find a solution to ours and also to help the eurozone. We expect that other countries should do the same, that they be prudent in their statements.

Mariano Rajoy

#32. The only way to overcome these contradictions is for the countries of the Eurozone (or at any rate those who are willing) to pool their public debts.

Thomas Piketty

#33. Dealing with Greece's problems will be more difficult if Greece is not a member of the eurozone.

Lucas Papademos

#34. We are near, very near, to an end to the eurozone crisis ... The worst - in the sense of the fear of the eurozone breaking up - is over. But the best isn't there yet.

Francois Hollande

#35. 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.

David Cameron