Mario Monti Quotes

We must build a kind of United States of Europe.

If people do not believe in Europe and in the euro area, it must be dismantled.

The most important thing is that Europe has to remain united.

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

Our biggest threat is not too much Europe, but too little.

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.

I'm a pessimist about the euro, but not about Europe. So the southern periphery, Spain, Italy, Greece, leave - Italy might be the first to go - and the rest stay. That will work just fine. But unless they want to give up democracy, I don't see greater fiscal union as the answer.

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

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.

I'm a great supporter of the European Union. I didn't support entry to the Euro, not because I'm against it in principle but because I didn't think it was economically right for Britain. But that doesn't make me any less pro-European.

As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.

Integration is the most important asset Europe has, and the key component to European integration is the euro.

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

Europe must dissipate any doubts over the euro, affirm that the euro is an irreversible project and act in consequence.

The glue that binds the EU together is not a shared identity but shared projects.

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

It's my damn duty and obligation to do everything possible for Europe to find a united path.

If the euro fails, Europe fails.

What's going to happen is that there will be a definite consensus that Europe is not working. The diagnosis will be to shed the currency and keep the rest, or that Europe is not working and a broader rejection - like in the U.K.

Let's not underestimate the European Union. You know what united Europe? Values. And that's why I am absolutely sure about the unity of the European Union and its solidarity with Ukraine.

There are so many problems in the E.U. that several countries are warming up to the idea that after the single currency, a deeper integration could also be created.

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

Europe has never existed. One must genuinely create Europe.

I continue to believe when I said in Hanover, that the E.U. remains one of the world's great political and economic achievements, and that those achievements should not be taken for granted.

There is a proposal to divide the currency zone into a north and a south euro. There is also the idea of setting up a core monetary union in the middle of Europe. I disapprove of these debates. Instead, we should devote all of our efforts to supplementing the monetary union with a political union.