Words matter. These are the best Euro Quotes from famous people such as Mario Draghi, Nigel Lawson, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Mario Monti, Didier Deschamps, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Within our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. Believe me, it will be enough.
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.
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.
If the euro becomes a factor promoting Europe’s drifting apart, then the foundation of the European project is destroyed.
For Euro 2016, we must remain humble, but we have the ambition to go as far as possible.
At the outset of the creation of the euro in 1999, it was expected that the southern eurozone economies would behave like those in the north; the Italians would behave like Germans. They didn’t. Instead, northern Europe fell into subsidizing southern Europe’s excess consumption, that is, its current account deficits.
The strongest institution in the hands of the European Union is the euro.
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.
I want the Eurobond, a 20 per cent devalued euro for southern European countries, protecting our products against those arriving from abroad, and a revision of the 3 per cent deficit budgetary rule.
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.
Europe unified its monetary policy through the euro before it unified politically, therefore sustaining member countries’ abilities to pursue the kind of independent fiscal policies that can strain a joint currency.
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.
The euro is a hybrid of a fixed exchange-rate regime, like the 1980s ERM or the 1930s gold standard, and a state currency.
A country like France now does two-thirds of its trade within the euro zone.
De facto, you have a multi-speed Europe. You look at the Schengen, you look at the euro zone, all this kind of cooperations, you have a multi-speed Europe.
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?
As to the euro zone avant-garde, it must go towards more solidarity and integration: a common budget, a common borrowing capability, and fiscal convergence.
Europe and the euro zone have no reason, rationally, to push Greece out of the euro. But this is a system in which many parties, many countries, many governments, many electorates participate and we could have events which, rationally, are not controllable.
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.
One of the arguments I make for the failure of the euro is that, at the time it was being constructed, there was a ‘neo-liberal’ ideology which said that all we need to do to make this thing work is to get deficits low, keep inflation low, and take down barriers, and then everything would be fine.
When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances.
I can understand countries don’t want to join the euro, but they cannot impede the consolidation and strengthening of the eurozone.
I would like to concentrate fully on football during the Euro, and I would feel much better if my family is not sitting in the stadium.
We will do whatever we could do to keep Greece inside the euro and inside Europe.
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.
The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it – Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so – would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours’ wrath.
There is no better protection against the euro crisis than successful structural reforms in southern Europe.
Not all Greeks are ready to do whatever is necessary to stay in the euro.
Integration is the most important asset Europe has, and the key component to European integration is the euro.
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.
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 joined a big club like Monaco and it was extraordinary for my growth as a player. That gave me the chance to break into the national squad, win the 1998 World Cup, the EURO in 2000, and make the leap to Italian football.
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.
Germany would be the biggest loser in a euro breakup.
I have kids, so I can understand the image that footballers have. They are fans of some players; I see in their eyes. They admire and try to imitate their gestures, their words, their celebrations. They love Ronaldo and Messi. Since Euro 2016, though, they have no right to pronounce the name of Ronaldo!
The bottom line is that the euro is a failed experiment.
If people do not believe in Europe and in the euro area, it must be dismantled.
The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.
In the end, the politics of the euro zone weren’t strong enough to create a fully integrated fiscal union with a common banking system, etc.
There is an interior style we intellectuals and design policy wonks know as Haut Euro Pooftastic, which really takes the biscuit.
The euro must be defended, or uncertainty about the European Union will be widespread.
After Euro 2012, I had very little holiday and almost no desire to play football. I was slipping into depression, from all the travelling.
Our under-19s, under-20s, under-17s teams are all getting into Euro finals, World Cup finals, winning bronze medals. We’re winning bronze medals; it’s about that final step now. We’ve got to punish teams. In every game – youth games, senior games – just to push the game further.
While it was an experiment to bring them together, nothing has divided Europe as much as the euro.
You’ve had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you’ve had a very dubious policy being followed.
Euro 2012 was my first title, yet most of the other guys have already won plenty of silverware.
I am already a veteran because I’ve been in the league for three years and I’ve played big games in the Euro League.
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.
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.
To be honest, I was never expecting to be in a World Cup final, a Euro final, a Champions League final, a Europa League final. I’ve done much more than I dreamt, and that’s incredible.
Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that’s a wonderful endeavor.
I don’t say every country has to leave the euro… But we have to leave the possibility if a country wants to leave.
Going out to France three years ago to watch Euro 2016 was massive and when I was there, stood in the crowd, I wanted to be part of that as a player.
Leaving the euro was never up for discussion. It is not up for discussion.
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.
The vast majority of Greeks accept the need for reform and want to keep our country inside the euro zone.
The most important thing is to defend the euro.
If we were the problem, it would be very convenient – kick Greece out, everything’s fine. What would happen to Spain, what about Portugal, what about Italy, what about the whole of the euro zone? We need more cooperation and less simplification and prejudice.