Jose Angel Gurria Quotes

A national currency, with the Euro as a common currency - that wouldn't bother me.

A country outside the euro zone cannot have a veto over countries in the euro zone.

Europe is one thing. The euro is something else.

Some countries that are close to Europe that already hold Deutschemarks, clearly would automatically hold euros, those are countries in Eastern Europe mainly, a few countries in Africa.

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

I was sure we would never see the adoption of the Euro. Countries giving up their currencies for a common tender was, it seemed to me, completely out of tune with currency being a carrier of people's cultural identity, celebrating national heroes and events, as it had been for hundreds of years.

The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States. It should help us adjust to the development of China.

The need to promote the adoption of a global currency as a vital element in the integration of the global economy is self-evident.

The Euro was a terrible mistake, one that is very difficult to unmake.

It seems like cloud cuckoo land... If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the pound sterling — no! ... We have made it quite clear that we will not have a single currency imposed on us.

While it was an experiment to bring them together, nothing has divided Europe as much as the euro.

The euro is going to continue to be the largest single trading block.

We have no intention of leaving the euro. In no way will we experiment with the future of our country.

The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.

It's political glue inside Europe to keep it together - the euro is the best thing going for it since the creation of the common market.

We have the EURO as a currency, which means a lot. It has not just stabilized the situation in Kosovo politically and economically, but also facilitated the direct contact that we have with Europe.

I can confirm that Poland should become a eurozone country, and not just because of the treaties that have been signed, but because I consider it of strategic interest both for Poland and the E.U.

Indeed, the creators of the euro envisioned it as an instrument to promote political union.

Nations with a common currency never went to war against each other. A common currency is more than the money you pay with.

It's in our interests that the euro is a successful, strong currency.

I can understand countries don't want to join the euro, but they cannot impede the consolidation and strengthening of the eurozone.

After choosing monetary union, further political union and workable governance in Europe was always going to be necessary.

If you put all the European countries together, we are the biggest economy in the world.

Europe unified its monetary policy through the euro before it unified politically, therefore sustaining member countries' abilities to pursue the kind of independent fiscal policies that can strain a joint currency.

The only way to have several currencies from divergent nations lumped together is if they are culturally close, such as Germany, the Netherlands and Austria. If they aren't, it simply can't continue to work.