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We must do everything to ensure that the Euro 2016 is a success.

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

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

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

It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

I think as a business it would be amazing if the euro was to collapse, but financially and economically I think that would be a bit of a tsunami for everybody to cope with.

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

Giving Northern Europe a veto over Southern Europe's budgets will not hold a monetary union together. The euro zone will continue to need the weaker countries to stomach decades of high unemployment to grind down wages.

After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.

The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.