Matteo Salvini Quotes

Once you change your currency to another dominant nation's currency you become dependent, you stop being the master of your economy. You submit yourself to the rules and regulations of another country.

The French are overwhelmingly convinced that the euro is a burden. Returning to an adapted national currency will create millions of jobs and give us back our freedom.

I am in favour of a different Europe, where each state can adopt its fiscal and monetary system.

If the Scottish people decide to opt for independence, it would not be a good idea for Scotland to maintain a very rigid link to the pound.

If Quebecers want to keep the Canadian dollar, they'll keep it - and nobody can stop that, end of debate.

Our dollar is now altogether too greatly influenced by the accidents of international trade, by the internal policies of other nations and by political disturbance in other continents. Therefore the United States must take firmly in its own hands the control of the gold value of our dollar. This is necessary in order to prevent dollar disturbances from swinging us away from our ultimate goal.

For many countries, monetary sovereignty is nothing more than an unattainable ideal.

I don't say every country has to leave the euro... But we have to leave the possibility if a country wants to leave.

I would go to the European institutions, I would demand for the French people four sovereignties: territorial - our borders; monetary and budgetary; economic; and legislative. Either the European Union says yes to me, or they would say no, and I would say to the French, there is no only other solution but to leave the E.U.

Those who claim that to leave the E.U. would damage the City are the very same as those who in the past confidently predicted, with a classic failure of understanding, that the City would be gravely damaged if the U.K. failed to adopt the euro as its currency.

What's a fact is that we give more than £350 million to the European Union and hand over control of that money to the European Union every week.

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

The colonies started to issue their own money and stopped using the Bank of England, which was what precipitated the war because you can't have your own currency because then you're out of our control.

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.

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.

Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?

Great Britain is not part of the euro-zone; but the decision we take will have great importance for Great Britain.

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.

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

I think that the tying of the Montenegrin economy with the euro is a much better option than the adventure of printing our own currency.

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.

We want to decide how we control our borders, our money, our economy, our currency.

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.

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

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