Among Quote by Vaclav Klaus

It is very difficult to enter a single currency zone having fairly weak economic parameters and maintain a favourable state of the economy, not…

— Vladimir Putin

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

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

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

A single currency entails a fixed interest rate, which means countries can't manage their own currency to suit their own needs. You need a…

— Joseph Stiglitz

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

The euro is a vital issue for Germany. There is no other country that derives as much benefit from the common domestic market and…

— Peer Steinbruck

The euro is good for Europe. But only if there is flexibility all around.

— Milton Friedman

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

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

The euro is not a currency. It is a political weapon to force countries to implement the policies decided by the E.U. and keep…

— Marine Le Pen

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