Euro Quotes - Page 3

• When the next big problem comes online, be it the Euro crisis, nuclear proliferation, an overstretched Internet, a killer flu, or any of the other possibilities I consider in X-Events, we will suffer a complexity overload.

  John L. Casti

  Euro Crisis, Suffering, Events

  "What If Everything Went Straight to Hell?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com.

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• Greeks have to know that they are not alone ... Those who are fighting for the survivor of Greece inside the Euro area are deeply harmed by the impression floating around in the Greek public opinion that Greece is a victim. Greece is a member of the EU and the euro. I want Greece to be a constructive member of the Union because the EU is also benefiting from Greece.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Fighting, Greek, Public Opinion

  Source: marketnews.com

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• The Financial Times is pro-British membership of the European Union. We have taken that position for decades. But we are not starry-eyed about the European Union. And we do not believe and have not believed for at least 10 years that Britain should be part of the euro.

  Lionel Barber

  Believe, Taken, Years

  "The Consequences Of The Brexit Referendum". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 11, 2016.

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• I just don't accept that there is a trade off between trade and democracy ... what we've got now is an institution that has utterly outgrown its roots which were noble... the real difference was the introduction of the euro.

  Ruth Davidson

  Real, Roots, Differences

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I'm not too sure how much you get for winning the Champion's League, but it's definitely 10 million euros.

  David Pleat

  Winning, League, Champion

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• The interesting thing is that the 82% of the Greeks do not want to abandon the Euro. They really believe that there might be some kind of magical way where we could stay in the Eurozone but do not do our homework. This is not possible. So what we are trying to do is explain, you know, we in Greece invented democracy but we also invented at the same time populism.

  Dora Bakoyannis

  Believe, Interesting, Greek

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• As Dutch, British and French explorers literally put this Great Southern Land on the map it would be ridiculous to say that modern day Australia is anything other than a grand - and successful - outpost of
  Euro-colonialism and, more specifically Anglo-Celt British colonialism. It's a fact of life like the Euro-colonization of the Americas etc. If it was an outpost of, let's say, Iranian or Zimbabwean colonialism would so many people still be so desperately trying to get into Australia by any means necessary, legal or otherwise? It's doubtful. Thank the Gods for Euro-colonialism!

  Douglas Pearce

  Mean, Successful, Australia

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• We will do whatever we could do to keep Greece inside the euro and inside Europe.

  Alexis Tsipras

  Europe, Greece

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• Our policy is European and Euro-Atlantic integration. There is no substitute for NATO.

  Bidzina Ivanishvili

  Substitutes, Integration, Policy

  "Bidzina Ivanishvili: the eccentric billionaire chasing Georgia's leadership" by Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2012.

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• 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 the shortcomings of the Euro structure. Euro central institutions, whether it be fiscal policy, monetary policy, financial regulation, are simply not as robust as they are in a currency that has a national government behind it.

  Stephen Harper

  Thinking, Government, Trying

  Interview with Peter Mansbridge, www.theglobeandmail.com. June 5, 2012.

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• If another euro country fails, so does Slovakia. Our economy is 80% open and if the citizens of Spain and Portugal have no money to buy cars made here in Slovakia then that will be bad for us. Everything is connected.

  Iveta Radicova

  Country, Car, Spain

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• It is the entire euro zone system which is under threat at the moment, not just a few small countries anymore... Our euro is under threat. The changing situation needs a quick and immediate reaction.

  Iveta Radicova

  Country, Needs, Moments

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• After the accession to the euro zone, interest rates declined substantially in Portugal.

  Anibal Cavaco Silva

  Portugal, Interest, Rate

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• Another question has been raised rather widely in Europe, in Japan as well as in the United States is what, to what extent will the euro become a reserve currency.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Japan, Europe, United States

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• The euro is going to be a big source of problems, not a source of help.

  Milton Friedman

  Helping, Problem, Source

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Germany cannot get out of the euro. What it has to do, therefore, is make the economy more flexible - to eliminate the restrictions on prices, on wages and on employment; in short, the regulations that keep 10 percent of the German workforce unemployed.

  Milton Friedman

  Germany, Employment, Wages

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Italy may well be the main problem. It has benefited most from the euro by having been able to get the euro interest rate instead of what otherwise would have been its own. That would be much higher because Italy has been accumulating so much debt. In the past, Italy has inflated away its debt. The virtue of the euro is that Italy can't do it alone. A tight ECB policy wouldn't permit that to happen again.

  Milton Friedman

  Past, Would Be, Debt

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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

  Milton Friedman

  Europe, Ifs, Flexibility

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The problem is that, in a world of floating exchange rates, as Italy was before the euro, if one country is subjected to a shock which requires it to cut wages, it cannot do so with a modern kind of control and regulation system. It is much easier to do it by letting the exchange rate change. Only one price has to change, instead of many.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Cutting, Floating

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The English are worried about the Euro being brought in because of loss of national identity and rising prices. In Scotland, people are just worried in case they have to close Poundstretcher.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, Loss

  "Mock the Week". www.imdb.com. (2005 - ).

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• Our future begins on January 1 1999. The euro is Europe's key to the 21st century. The era of solo national fiscal and economic policy is over.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Keys, Europe, Eras

  "Welcome to Euroland" by Alex Brummer, Mark Milner, Martin Walker, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 1999.

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• The euro is a sickly premature infant, the result of an over-hasty monetary union.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Europe, Unions, Results

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• The bottom line is that the euro is a failed experiment.

  Paul Singer

  Lines, Bottom, Experiments

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• In 50 years, no one will care about the fiscal cliff or the Euro crisis. They'll just ask, "So the Arctic melted, and then what did you do?"

  Bill McKibben

  Euro Crisis, Years, Cliffs

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• Most paper money initially existed as a substitute for gold. That's what gave it value. But right now what gives a currency value is other currency. Most countries hold reserves and the reserves are other currencies. If you are a backing up the euro with the dollar, what's backing up the dollar? I don't think it is going to go to a point where all you have is coins and bars of gold, but I do think that we are going to have to go back to a monetary system based in gold, not based on paper.

  Peter Schiff

  Country, Thinking, Giving

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