Crisis Quote by Barry Eichengreen

The economic crisis has weakened the EU for years.

— Yanis Varoufakis

Europe has grown through crises. Each crisis also presents opportunities, and Europe has emerged stronger from each one. That is the way history unfolds.…

— Wolfgang Schauble

“I interpret your question as applying more to financial stability in the euro area than to the euro itself. I do not think there…

— Anonymous

Two decisions have damaged the stability both of the euro and of Europe: the premature admission of Greece to the euro area and the…

— Helmut Kohl

The EU is mired in deep structural crisis. Greece, Portugal and Ireland cannot survive inside the Euro.

— Nigel Farage

Europe must dissipate any doubts over the euro, affirm that the euro is an irreversible project and act in consequence.

— Mariano Rajoy

The eurozone status quo is neither tolerable nor stable. Mainstream economists would call it an inferior equilibrium; I call it a nightmare - one…

— George Soros

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

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…

— George Papandreou

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

The Europeans governments have massively changed the landscape in Europe. There is no doubt about it. They have put together the European Financial Stability…

— Christine Lagarde

One of the arguments I make for the failure of the euro is that, at the time it was being constructed, there was a…

— Joseph Stiglitz