Affected Quote by Martin Schulz

Italy is the fourth-largest economy in Europe and the eighth-largest economy in the world, and its banking system is collapsing. And Germany is desperate.…

— George Friedman

Italy spills over to everything. Italy is a huge banking system. It has been the major banking system in Eastern Europe. It's worked with…

— George Friedman

Brexit is a disaster, Italy won't be real about its debt, and the European Union is in trouble.

— John Layfield

The problem is, if at all, in the different view of the economy, of economic growth. Growth is too low, even for us. That…

— Paolo Gentiloni

If we look at Somalia, Ethiopia and Lybia, to how they're reduced now, and to how they were before, with Italy, I think that…

— Gianfranco Fini

Italy is working to make sure the Brexit shock is an opportunity for a European reawakening.

— Paolo Gentiloni

Italy may well be the main problem. It has benefited most from the euro by having been able to get the euro interest rate…

— Milton Friedman

The Italian economy is certainly the weakest of the big European countries.

— Romano Prodi

The Italy of my children will be at head of Europe, economically. Because Italy has all the conditions to be the country of the…

— Matteo Renzi

The Italians, who used to be a great motor-manufacturing power, have been absolutely destroyed by the euro - as was intended by the Germans.

— Boris Johnson

I think another crisis, which is being predicted now and which will be worse than what we saw in 2008, could bring the European…

— Tariq Ali

The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or…

— Barry Eichengreen