Viktor Orban Quotes

The participation of our country in the eurozone is a guarantee for the country's monetary stability. It is a driver of financial prosperity.

We have no intention of leaving the euro. In no way will we experiment with the future of our country.

Our membership of the euro is a guarantee of monetary stability and creates the right conditions for sustainable growth. Our membership of the euro is the only choice.

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

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

The euro must be defended, or uncertainty about the European Union will be widespread.

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

The goal of the government is to guarantee the place of Greece in the eurozone against those who want to undermine it.

The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.

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.

It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.

When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances.

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.

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.

The most important quality of a currency is its stability.

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

If the euro fails, Europe fails.

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.

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

I would say that fears of the euro area breaking up are unfounded.

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

Europe is one thing. The euro is something else.

I want the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make trading much easier.

If I had political responsibility, I would want to prepare for a plan B that would foresee that the European currency union, that the eurozone, no longer necessarily consists of 17 member states. And that means to make provisions so that other countries are not pulled into the maelstrom through contagion.

It will not be possible to solve the current crisis with euro bonds.