George Papandreou Quotes

Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that - more of a deeper political union.

The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.

If the euro becomes a factor promoting Europe's drifting apart, then the foundation of the European project is destroyed.

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

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

Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary union.

Is Europe going to be breaking? I don't think so. I think the euro will stay. I think at the end of the day Europeans will find the solutions in order to hold Europe together.

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.

Without Britain, Europe would remain only a torso.

Our position in Europe is not negotiable. The Greek people will defend it by all means. But participation in the euro involves rules and obligations, which we must consistently meet. Greece belongs to Europe and Europe cannot be envisaged without Greece.

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

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

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

The strength of Europe at the end of the day has always been that we stuck together and that demands a great amount - probably even more so than in the past - of discussions, of balancing, of bringing along individual countries.

The E.U. cannot give up on common solidarity. The idea that every country does its own thing, and history and geography decides whose turn it is - whether Greece or Italy or Spain or, who knows, even Poland if there's a crisis in north-eastern Europe - that just can't be. There has to be a common policy.

Europe is one thing. The euro is something else.

Germany has to put the broader European interest on the same level as its own national interest, or the euro is toast.

Nothing would be better today if Europe were divided or smaller. Today we have to say loud and clear that the crises, which have affected Europe cannot serve as a pretext for its disintegration. A mini-Europe would be the worst response to the maxi problems we have to face.

I like this idea of the re-foundation of the European Union, maybe it can be done, because Europe - I do not say is unique, but it has a force, a culture, a history that cannot be wasted, and we must do everything so that the European Union has the strength and also the inspiration to make it go forward. That's what I think.

I like this idea of the re-foundation of the European Union, maybe it can be done, because Europe - I do not say is unique, but it has a force, a culture, a history that cannot be wasted, and we must do everything so that the European Union has the strength and also the inspiration to make it go forward.

I think there are going to be more countries joining the euro.

The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.

[Helmut] Kohl said Europe must return to being a community committed to stability and the rule of law.

Basically, Herman van Rompuy wants the European Union to become a debt union, which may be acceptable to some of the southern countries who are effectively bust. To the northern countries, it is not.

It is always said that Europe is a project of the elite. That's incorrect.