Jamie Dimon Quotes

A country like France now does two-thirds of its trade within the euro zone.

I see us very much at the heart of Europe. We are founding members of the single market; we are founding members of the euro.

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

Firstly, people take for granted that the E.U. has created the biggest economic space in the world.

You still hear some people speaking as though we could decide whether the Common market existed or not.

I'm convinced that, in the long term, a monetary union includes a joint debt policy under strict, mutually agreed upon conditions.

We have established the Customs Union and the Eurasian Economic Union not by force, but through a compromise. It was a challenging, complicated, multi-year process based on agreement, compromise and mutually acceptable conditions in the hope of creating for our economies and for our people better competitive advantages in the world markets and in the world as a whole.

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

We were talking about really getting Europe on its feet. It was our hope that there would be a breakdown of trade barriers in Europe first, and then eventually a breakdown internationally, which would help increase trade with Europe.

It is a responsibility we perceive from the entire international community to protect the stability of the single currency as well as the European frame work.

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.

The benefits from a world currency would be enormous.

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.

While the Marshall Plan was important for Europe's recovery, Europe's prosperity was really built on economic integration and policy coherence.

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.

We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization.

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.

In order to consolidate the euro we need to harmonise our economic, fiscal and social policies, hence we are going toward greater integration.

What we should be doing in the EU as a whole is more economic integration in the single market, rather than less.

Countries themselves need to do everything possible to remain in the euro zone.

We have the eurozone. Could we accept to be cleared, regulated, and de facto have inflows and outflows from a country that has decided to leave the E.U.? For me, definitely not.

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 variety of institutions to help nations for which the policies aren't well suited. Europe introduced the euro without providing those structures.

The Eurozone allows for the largely unimpeded movement of people, goods, services, and capital across borders. It has also resulted in unprecedented cooperation on crime, security, and finance among its members.

E.U. is the first global domestic market.

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