Eurozone Quotes - Page 2

• We believe that what they call "Grexit" [a Greek exit from the eurozone] is not an option for us.

  Antonis Samaras

  Believe, Greek, Exit

  "Everybody Knows We Are Serious". Interview with Lally Weymouth, www.slate.com. September 14, 2012.

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• If I had political responsibility, I would want to prepare for a plan B that would foresee that the European currency union, that the eurozone, no longer necessarily consists of 17 member states. And that means to make provisions so that other countries are not pulled into the maelstrom through contagion.

  Peer Steinbruck

  Country, Mean, Responsibility

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• I thank all of those deputies who supported the government and gave it a vote of confidence. I believe each of those votes represents a responsible decision to avoid placing our country's membership of the eurozone in danger.

  Lucas Papademos

  Country, Believe, Government

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• You have to abolish pension plans. You have to abolish social spending. You have to raise taxes. You have to have at least fifty percent of the European population emigrate, either to Russia or China. You would have to have mass starvation. Very simple. That's the price that the Eurozone thinks is well worth paying.

  Michael Hudson

  Simple, Thinking, Pension Plans

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Establishing proper economic governance that allows the Eurozone to undertake the integration it needs whilst protecting the interests of the single market for all 28, the rights of member states who are not in the Euro - including of course the UK - is really important for the future of the European Union.

  George Osborne

  Rights, Important, Needs

  Source: www.economist.com

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• If there is a Greek exit from the Eurozone, I think the German elite will be quite pleased that they can then use that to restructure the Eurozone and make it a zone where only strong countries are allowed in. There would then be two tiers within the European Union, which is in fact already happening. But you cannot simply get rid of German control by raising the specter of the Third Reich. That's ahistorical.

  Tariq Ali

  Country, Strong, Thinking

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Whatever new arrangements are enacted for the Eurozone, they must work fairly for those inside it and out.

  David Cameron

  Arrangements

  "The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". www.independent.co.uk. June 24, 2016.

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• Both the Eurozone and European Union is like the end of the Roman Empire. It's already started. In a few years' time it will not be there anymore. Don't ask me if it will be two years or ten years but the end is near. Like the Roman Empire, it's gone.

  Geert Wilders

  Years, Two, Gone

  Source: www1.cbn.com

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• TPP is dead anyway, and similar deals in the eurozone are going nowhere.

  Gary Shilling

  Deals

  Source: markets.businessinsider.com

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• The European Union that emerges from the Eurozone crisis is going to be a very different body. It will be transformed perhaps beyond recognition by the measures needed to save the Eurozone.

  David Cameron

  Different, Body, Unions

  "The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". David Cameron's Speech at Bloomberg, 2013, www.independent.co.uk. June 24, 2016.

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• Yes, we're in a protectionist era because when you have lack of domestic growth, everybody tries to unload the problem on foreigners with protectionism, devaluations, cutbacks on imports. But is there going to be a dramatic change? TPP is dead anyway, and similar deals in the eurozone are going nowhere.

  Gary Shilling

  Growth, Trying, Eras

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I have criticized it [Europe], but I repeat: we keep 40 percent of our gold and foreign currency reserves in euros, we are not interested in the collapse of the Eurozone, but I do not rule out the possibility of decisions being made that would consolidate a group of countries equal in economic development and this, in my opinion, will lead to a consolidation of the euro. But there can also be some interim decisions in order to keep the present number of members of the Eurozone unchanged.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Order, Europe

  Source: thesaker.is

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• Then, the specialists themselves, probably believe that in the course of EU expansion, for example, some elements concerning the readiness of some economies to enter the Eurozone have not been taken into account.

  Vladimir Putin

  Taken, Believe, Expansion

  Source: thesaker.is

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• Every government, from the Obama administration right through to Angela Merkel, the Eurozone and the IMF, promise to save the banks, not the economy.

  Michael Hudson

  Government, Promise, Administration

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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