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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.

I do have a fundamental concern about us losing control of our own destiny, and this is not just about the euro. You can expand and extend it into the whole constitutional issue. The British people have been suckered with regard to how the whole currency and constitutional issues have been sold to them.

Countries themselves need to do everything possible to remain in the euro zone.

The most important thing is to defend 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.

Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor.

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

We will do whatever we could do to keep Greece inside the euro and inside Europe.

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.