Britain Quote by George Osborne

Britain wants the single currency to be a success. It is massively in our interests that we have a stable financial system on our…

— George Osborne

Britain is not in the single currency, and we're not going to be. But we all need the eurozone to have the right governance…

— David Cameron

Britain should not be forced to make a choice between joining the single currency and leaving the EU, because if we're forced to make…

— George Osborne

A single currency entails a fixed interest rate, which means countries can't manage their own currency to suit their own needs. You need a…

— Joseph Stiglitz

The mark of a single currency is not only that all other currencies must be extinguished but that the capacity of other institutions to…

— Norman Tebbit

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

The euro is not a currency. It is a political weapon to force countries to implement the policies decided by the E.U. and keep…

— Marine Le Pen

At the core of the European Union must be, as it is now, the single market. Britain is at the heart of that Single…

— David Cameron

A single currency means a single government, and that single government would be the government whose policies determined every aspect of economic life.

— Enoch Powell

A European currency will lead to member-nations transferring their sovereignty over financial and wage policies as well as in monetary affairs... It is an…

— Hans Tietmeyer

I want the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make trading much easier.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The Financial Times is pro-British membership of the European Union. We have taken that position for decades. But we are not starry-eyed about the…

— Lionel Barber