Viktor Orban Quotes

This much is true: When we created the euro, it wasn't possible to create a political union along with it. People weren't ready for that. But since then, they've grown more willing to go in that direction. It's a process, one that is sometimes laborious and sometimes slow. But it's important to keep the populations involved.

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

The heart of the matter is that the very nature of the European Union, and of this country's relationship with it, has fundamentally changed after the coming into being of the European monetary union and the creation of the eurozone, of which - quite rightly - we are not a part.

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.

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

The euro is a vital issue for Germany. There is no other country that derives as much benefit from the common domestic market and the monetary union as Germany.

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.

The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.

I think that we must come together progressively, with the British, the Germans, the Spanish, the Italians and with the new members of the European Union, we must make an effort to forge closer links.

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.

We believe that the European Union is facing a truly historic choice.

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German and European unification are two sides of the same coin.

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

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.

This is what the European Union is all about. A strong market with a strong currency.

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

The European Union is not only a great idea, but it's also an idea we must keep working on.

The European Union is here to stay.

I'm a firm believer in the monetary union.

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.

The whole project of European Union is one in deep trouble.

It [the Euro] is a decisive step towards ever closer political and institutional union in Europe. Above all, it is political.