56 Quotes About Euro

Greece's bailout, then Ireland's, then Portgual's, then Spain's were primarily rescue packages for French and German banks.

Theory of public goods. Theory that if I take you euro (as an elected state government) and give fifty cents back... you will be happier and I will be satisfied.

the euro, it seems, is stuck in a political no man's land – trapped between two opposing world views. And the battleground is not economics, but ethics.

« Il est évident que les architectes de l’Europe de L’Euro ont oublié les valeurs chrétiennes, historiques, culturelles, démocratiques et sociales de l’Europe, c’est la raison pour laquelle, l’Europe de l’Euro n’est pas une Europe de la démocratie, mais une Europe de la finance et des marchés, qui conduira tôt ou tard à des sursauts démocratiques des peuples d’Europe, comme sous le Front populaire en France, ou au pire, comme sous les sursauts populaires français de 1789. »

When it becomes serious, you have to lie.

Traficar dinheiro para fora da Europa tornou-se muito mais fácil devido à existência da nota de 500 euros, uma nota bancária com um valor ridiculamente elevado que facilitou e muito a vida aos criminosos, que conseguem esconder 20000 euros num único maço de cigarros.

Som zástancom eura, avšak fiškálnu úniu odmietam. A tvrdím, že zástancovia fiškálnej únie v skutočnosti euro ohrozujú.

Keď hovoríme o fiškálnej únii, budeme s tým súhlasiť vtedy, keď to bude znamenať prísne, vynútiteľné, automatické pravidlá, sankcie, ktoré môžu znamenať aj zníženie rozpočtovej suverenity v krajinách, ktoré nedodržiavajú pravidlá, ktoré robia nezodpovednú politiku vytvárania deficitov a dlhov. Zdá sa, že takéto videnie sa presadzuje.

You've got to put this in context, ... I think they (the critics) would be more worried if the euro had gone up 12 percent instead of fallen 12 percent (from its launch level). We've got everyone trying to manipulate a weaker currency, but when you've actually got one, it's criticized.