Jean-Claude Juncker Quotes

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.

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.

In order to consolidate the euro we need to harmonise our economic, fiscal and social policies, hence we are going toward greater integration.

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

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

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.

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.

Germany has to put the broader European interest on the same level as its own national interest, or the euro is toast.

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

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

After choosing monetary union, further political union and workable governance in Europe was always going to be necessary.

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.

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.

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.

Peace in Europe can only come through union in one economic system. The United States of Europe are overdue.

United States of Europe

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

Whoever pays should control; whoever pays should sanction. I agree. But budgetary union should be completed by a partial mutualisation of debts through eurobonds.

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.

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.

I don't want to leave euro or leave the European Union.

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.