Giorgio Napolitano Quotes

Within our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. Believe me, it will be enough.

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.

Britain is not in the single currency, and we're not going to be. But we all need the eurozone to have the right governance and structures to secure a successful currency for the long term.

The Europeans governments have massively changed the landscape in Europe. There is no doubt about it. They have put together the European Financial Stability Fund. They have discussed and approved the European Stability Mechanism.

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

Two decisions have damaged the stability both of the euro and of Europe: the premature admission of Greece to the euro area and the breach and subsequent weakening of the stability and growth pact.

The most important thing is to defend the euro.

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

The euro zone must strike for a better governance structure, and there is no alternative to that. Euro zone countries must either develop an exit mechanism for troubled members, or it should embrace a closer political union: an effective governance structure that is capable of enforcing rules.

We are near, very near, to an end to the eurozone crisis... The worst - in the sense of the fear of the eurozone breaking up - is over. But the best isn't there yet.

If we were the problem, it would be very convenient - kick Greece out, everything's fine. What would happen to Spain, what about Portugal, what about Italy, what about the whole of the euro zone? We need more cooperation and less simplification and prejudice.

Interest rates do not have to be identical across the whole euro area, but it is unacceptable if major differences arise from broken capital markets or concern about a euro area break-up.

We need to put in place an economic system of governance for the euro-zone.

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 must break up the eurozone. We must set those Mediterranean countries free.

The battle of the euro is being fought right now in Spain and Italy. The future of the euro is at stake in the next weeks.

But I would bet that the euro continues to exist and that its importance as a global currency will likely increase.

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

Our eurozone partners have made it clear: The choice is between staying in or getting out of the eurozone.

If the euro fails, Europe fails.

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

The Germans argue - and I can fully understand them - that the euro countries must surrender their sovereignty, because that is the only way to implement budget discipline in a fiscal union.

The euro is... a failed currency, a wrong currency, a failed experiment.

The strongest institution in the hands of the European Union is the euro.

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.