There is no better protection against the euro crisis than successful structural reforms in southern Europe.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It will not be possible to solve the current crisis with euro bonds.
Without Greece, it is not possible to preserve the integrity of the European phenomenon.
The euro area must not be treated as an 'opt out' from the European Union.
I can understand countries don't want to join the euro, but they cannot impede the consolidation and strengthening of the eurozone.
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.
Internal protectionism in Europe would be deadly, really a disaster for European economies.
We cannot allow the bankruptcy of a euro member state like Greece to turn into a second Lehman Brothers.
There have been no voices against the structural reforms that I have proposed, especially the energy reform.
The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.
Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.