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

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.

We must stress that the euro has been beneficial to the European Union because, otherwise, in this context of international turmoil, every country would have to devalue their currencies.

What we should be doing in the EU as a whole is more economic integration in the single market, rather than less.

But I would bet that the euro continues to exist and that its importance as a global currency will likely increase.

The strongest institution in the hands of the European Union is the euro.

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.

You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed.

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.

We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization.