Continental Quote by Timothy Garton Ash

The current Eurozone is obviously dysfunctional. And serious people within Germany and elsewhere know this to be the case and know things cannot function…

— Tariq Ali

You've got some very powerful countries: Poland, the United Kingdom, Sweden and others who have a genuine desire to see the euro zone straighten…

— Nick Clegg

Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor.

— Jamie Dimon

The euro is... a failed currency, a wrong currency, a failed experiment.

— Matteo Salvini

The eurozone status quo is neither tolerable nor stable. Mainstream economists would call it an inferior equilibrium; I call it a nightmare - one…

— George Soros

One of the arguments I make for the failure of the euro is that, at the time it was being constructed, there was a…

— Joseph Stiglitz

“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

When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances.

— John Major

Very serious mistakes were made by previous governments, and Greece was ready to be abandoned by its partners and to leave the eurozone, which…

— Antonis Samaras

Europe has, to put it mildly, been in a poor state since the transition to the 21st century. This is down to national issues,…

— Helmut Kohl

So Europe's a big driver. And at one point, if the euro hadn't devalued, they would have been making as much money as the…

— Jim Cantalupo

At the outset of the creation of the euro in 1999, it was expected that the southern eurozone economies would behave like those in…

— Alan Greenspan