Despair Quote by George Will

The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a political rather…

— George Will

“Far from being Eurocentric, my analysis "exoticizes" Europe. Europe is historically aberrant. In some ways this was a historical accident, not entirely Europe's fault.…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

The Euro is a conquest of sovereignty. It gives us a margin of manoeuvre. Its a tool to help us master globalisation and help…

— Dominique Strauss-Kahn

“Every culture has a myth of decline from some golden age, and almost all peoples throughout history have been pessimists. Even today pessimism still…

— Peter Thiel

Europe is one thing. The euro is something else.

— Beppe Grillo

“European Identity: The Death of National Era?”

— E.F.Shqerra

“the euro, it seems, is stuck in a political no man's land – trapped between two opposing world views. And the battleground is not…

— Martin Cohen

In my experience, Eurosceptics are likelier to have lived abroad and to have entered fully into other cultures than Euro-enthusiasts, many of whom seem…

— Daniel Hannan

I have always found the word 'Europe' on the lips of those who wanted something from others which they dared not demand in their…

— Otto von Bismarck

Europe is... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure.

— Margaret Thatcher

I am imprinted with the whole sense of European history, especially German history, going back to World War I, which really destroyed all the…

— Lisel Mueller

The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.

— Angela Merkel