Argentina Quote by Vladimir Putin

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

It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone…

— Vaclav Klaus

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

The only way to have several currencies from divergent nations lumped together is if they are culturally close, such as Germany, the Netherlands and…

— Alan Greenspan

There are so many problems in the E.U. that several countries are warming up to the idea that after the single currency, a deeper…

— Viktor Orban

I want the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make trading much easier.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

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

The European single currency is bound to fail, economically, politically and indeed socially, though the timing, occasion and full consequences are all necessarily still…

— Margaret Thatcher

A global economy requires a global currency.

— Paul Volcker

“There's another element in the euro crisis, another weakness of a shared currency, that took many people, myself included, by surprise. It turns out…

— Paul Krugman