Euro Exit Quotes

A Greek exit from the E.U. and the euro would mean the Greek economy would be difficult to sustain.

I think it's often discussed that leaving the Euro is an option for Greece. I think this is really not an option.

Leave the euro? Surely yes.

Not all Greeks are ready to do whatever is necessary to stay in the euro.

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

If we don't all leave the euro behind, it will explode. Either there will be a popular revolt because the people no longer want to be bled out. Or the Germans will say: Stop, we can't pay for the poor anymore.

Leaving the euro was never up for discussion. It is not up for discussion.

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.