Case Quote by Harry Enfield

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

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

I'm not trying to be diplomatic. I'm trying to be more nuanced and realistic. I think there has to be a serious examination of…

— Stephen Harper

Giving Northern Europe a veto over Southern Europe's budgets will not hold a monetary union together. The euro zone will continue to need the…

— Austan Goolsbee

I'd like to see the argument made for greater worldwide federalism, not just the European Union.

— Ben Miller

We already have a federation. The 11, soon to be 12, member States adopting the euro have already given up part of their sovereignty,…

— Joschka Fischer

If European monetary policy is run according to German interests, huge structural imbalances will accumulate. The Germans will then either have to pay to…

— John Lanchester

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

I think there are going to be more countries joining the euro.

— Jose Angel Gurria

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

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

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

— Francois Hollande