For my generation, the monetary union has always been…

There is a proposal to divide the currency zone into a north and a south euro. There is also the idea of setting up…

— Jean-Claude Juncker

I'm convinced that, in the long term, a monetary union includes a joint debt policy under strict, mutually agreed upon conditions.

— Jean-Claude Juncker

Giving Northern Europe a veto over Southern Europe's budgets will not hold a monetary union together. The euro zone will continue to need the…

— Austan Goolsbee

After choosing monetary union, further political union and workable governance in Europe was always going to be necessary.

— Najib Razak

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

— Peer Steinbruck

It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone…

— Vaclav Klaus

To the best of my knowledge, there has never been a monetary union, putting out a fiat currency, composed of independent states.

— Milton Friedman

I'm a firm believer in the monetary union.

— Wolfgang Schauble

We already have a federation. The 11, soon to be 12, member States adopting the euro have already given up part of their sovereignty,…

— Joschka Fischer

The economic union - creating a big common market, like the United States, so that you can compete across borders. There are common rules,…

— Jamie Dimon

The goal of European unification can only be achieved if everyone participates, perhaps with exceptions in some areas. Not all countries are part of…

— Wolfgang Schauble

Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and…

— Barry Eichengreen

The euro is a sickly premature infant, the result of an over-hasty monetary union.

— Gerhard Schroder

Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging…

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

“One of the central challenges of forging peace, justice and freedom in our time is to experiment with political models that promote the dispersal,…

— Van Steenwyk, Mark