It will not be possible to solve the current crisis with euro bonds.
Europe is one thing. The euro is something else.
For us to reach the Euro 2008 final was a success.
A country outside the euro zone cannot have a veto over countries in the euro zone.
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.
I’m tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro – that’s the Scotch-Irish part.
Public confidence in, and support for, the euro – and, indeed, the European Union – will ultimately be determined by how well we deliver on growth and jobs rather than on institutional wrangling and complex legal or technical negotiations.
I’ve watched us go out on penalties so often. I really thought we’d make it at Euro ’96, especially after Gazza’s goal against Scotland. I still go to every England game as a spectator.
The euro is a potent tool used by Germany to engage in permanent monetary dumping.
The Italians are very strong defensively. They showed in Euro 2000 how good defensively they are.
Europe must dissipate any doubts over the euro, affirm that the euro is an irreversible project and act in consequence.
The French are overwhelmingly convinced that the euro is a burden. Returning to an adapted national currency will create millions of jobs and give us back our freedom.
It’s not often one gets the chance to write this but, when it comes to the bailouts, especially the euro bailouts, Marxists are right. Working people are being forced to support a privileged few.
Let’s start with the euro. What on earth were we thinking? How could anyone with the faintest grasp of economics have believed it was anything other than sheer insanity to yoke together diverse national economies such as Greece, Ireland, Germany and Finland under a single exchange rate and a single interest rate?
I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.
The euro has become a means by which superior German productivity is able to gain an absolutely unbeatable advantage over the whole eurozone territory.
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 fact that we’re going through a crisis is an opportunity for Europe to be more coordinated and more integrated. We’re actually talking about a European Monetary Fund or euro bonds, about guarantees for countries, about economic governance in the European Union. That shows the strength of Europe.
After Euro 2008, football in England was shattered for a bit, and people were losing interest in following England.
Germany has to put the broader European interest on the same level as its own national interest, or the euro is toast.
