Peer Steinbruck

But I would bet that the euro continues to exist and that its importance as a global currency will likely increase.

— Peer Steinbruck

I would happily help to turn the stone being thrown at me into a boomerang.

— Peer Steinbruck

If things sometimes get tough, you can't ask yourself what impact it's having on you. It isn't an option.

— Peer Steinbruck

The U.S. will lose its status as the superpower of the world financial system. The world will become multi-polar.

— Peer Steinbruck

The euro is a vital issue for Germany. There is no other country that derives as much benefit from the common domestic…

— Peer Steinbruck

Nevertheless, I don't hesitate to say that elections in Germany are decided in the center, not on the fringes and not in…

— Peer Steinbruck

You can't exactly bake a man to your specifications. Most of all, one shouldn't alienate a candidate. A hybrid of Einstein, Tarzan…

— Peer Steinbruck

Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country's…

— Peer Steinbruck

You can't let a candidate run for too long. He will be dragged along, cut apart, put back together and ripped to…

— Peer Steinbruck

When I look at the chaotic and volatile debate right now, both in Germany and around the world, my impression and concern…

— Peer Steinbruck

When I look at how the banking world has changed and at the role Chinese banks, for example, play today, Germany, as…

— Peer Steinbruck

Over a period of 20 years, German reunification has cost 2 trillion euros, or an average of 100 billion euros a year.…

— Peer Steinbruck

One has to explain to people that the EU in this form is the answer both to 1945 and to the 21st…

— Peer Steinbruck

There's no more place in the euro zone for well-meaning laxness when dealing with deficits and failings. If the demands on Greece…

— Peer Steinbruck

There are still deep-seated structural problems that threaten the economic balance in the world: Between the United States and China, for example,…

— Peer Steinbruck

Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in…

— Peer Steinbruck

If I had political responsibility, I would want to prepare for a plan B that would foresee that the European currency union,…

— Peer Steinbruck