Budgets Quote by Austan Goolsbee

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

A country outside the euro zone cannot have a veto over countries in the euro zone.

— Francois Hollande

I don't understand why the Euro-sceptics think monetary union will lead to a federal Europe. It seems to me that the opposite is the…

— Harry Enfield

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

The euro zone must strike for a better governance structure, and there is no alternative to that. Euro zone countries must either develop an…

— Lou Jiwei

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

— Francois Hollande

What's going to happen is that there will be a definite consensus that Europe is not working. The diagnosis will be to shed the…

— Joseph Stiglitz

The key problem is the debt restructuring in the euro zone. As long as the debt burden is not reduced, there is no chance…

— George Soros

Without a tighter union, Europe will disintegrate

— Rem Koolhaas

There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European…

— George Osborne

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,…

— Joseph Stiglitz

So if the euro, if Euroland is to become a reserve center, if the euro is to become a reserve currency, Euroland will have…

— Robert C. Solomon