Wolfgang Schauble Quotes

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

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

Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union.

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.

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

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

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

The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a political rather than a merely geographic expression.

Germany is the united heart of an ever increasingly united continent.

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.

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.

There's going to be a need for a system of cooperation within the continent of Europe including the U.K. that covers both economic and political cooperation.

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.

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

I'm a firm believer in the monetary union.

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

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.

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.

I'm a great supporter of the European Union. I didn't support entry to the Euro, not because I'm against it in principle but because I didn't think it was economically right for Britain. But that doesn't make me any less pro-European.

Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that - more of a deeper political union.

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

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