Crisis Quote by Frits Bolkestein

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

Monetary union must be oriented towards the needs of citizens and must balance the principles of responsibility and solidarity more effectively.

— Giuseppe Conte

Europe unified its monetary policy through the euro before it unified politically, therefore sustaining member countries' abilities to pursue the kind of independent fiscal…

— Amity Shlaes

For a small open economy that trades mostly with the euro zone it makes absolute sense to be part of the currency union. Our…

— Dalia Grybauskaite

“Money is to an economy as nutrition is to the human body. When central bankers ignore that relationship by providing more capital that functionally…

— Said Elias Dawlabani

I'm a firm believer in the monetary union.

— Wolfgang Schauble

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

“As one highly placed énarque has recently put it: ‘Of course we want monetary union. Ninety per cent of the élite want it. There…

— Bernard Connolly

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

It is one of the serious evils of our present system of banking , that it enables one class of society - and that…

— Andrew Jackson

The European Union is a union of the extreme center. It's a banker's union. You see how they operate in country after country, appointing…

— Tariq Ali