Common Quote by Paolo Gentiloni

Part of the concept of the euro zone was to establish a common market. The banks were going to bank across all their countries…

— Jamie Dimon

Yet, Puerto Ricos economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the…

— Dick Thornburgh

I think sometimes Europe may take for granted the extraordinary progress that's been made over the last 40, 50 years. I recognize that sometimes…

— Barack Obama

A country outside the euro zone cannot have a veto over countries in the euro zone.

— Francois Hollande

Greece has given Europe the opportunity to fix a defect in the euro zone, that is the fact that we did not have a…

— George Papandreou

First of all, Greece won't go down. We're talking about a country that is capable of making change. Europe will not allow the destabilization…

— George Papandreou

Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.

— Barry Eichengreen

It is the entire euro zone system which is under threat at the moment, not just a few small countries anymore... Our euro is…

— Iveta Radicova

The Greek people do not want to exit the euro. And I believe the Greek people already have shown that they have made major…

— George Papandreou

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

Europe and the euro zone have no reason, rationally, to push Greece out of the euro. But this is a system in which many…

— Evangelos Venizelos

As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in…

— Barry Eichengreen