Core Quote by Jean-Claude Juncker

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

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

Thanks to the euro, our pockets will soon hold solid evidence of a European identity. We need to build on this, and make the…

— Laurent Fabius

The euro zone must strike for a better governance structure, and there is no alternative to that. Euro zone countries must either develop an…

— Lou Jiwei

If I had political responsibility, I would want to prepare for a plan B that would foresee that the European currency union, that the…

— Peer Steinbruck

I have criticized it [Europe], but I repeat: we keep 40 percent of our gold and foreign currency reserves in euros, we are not…

— Vladimir Putin

We need to put in place an economic system of governance for the euro-zone.

— Francois Fillon

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

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

I don't understand why the Euro-sceptics think monetary union will lead to a federal Europe. It seems to me that the opposite is the…

— Harry Enfield

Everyone who votes for us will know that a Northern League government would get rid of the euro and move back to a national…

— Matteo Salvini

It [the Euro] is a decisive step towards ever closer political and institutional union in Europe. Above all, it is political.

— Carlo Azeglio Ciampi