George Soros Europe Quotations
George Soros Quotes about:
Europe Quotes from:
- All Europe Quotes
- Margaret Thatcher
- Thomas Jefferson
- David Cameron
- Angela Merkel
- Jean Claude Juncker
- Martin Schulz
- George Papandreou
- Laurent Fabius
- Marc Newson
- Jose Barroso
- Timothy Garton Ash
- Adolf Hitler
- Francois Hollande
- Gordon Brown
- Noam Chomsky
- Tony Blair
- Winston Churchill
- Jacques Delors
- Peter Mandelson
- W Averell Harriman
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Country Quotes
The lower interest rates fueled housing and consumption booms in countries such as Spain and Ireland. At the same time, Germany, struggling with the burdens of reunification, tightened its belt and became more competitive. All this led to a wide divergence in economic performance. Europe became divided into creditor and debtor countries.
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Country Quotes
Germany will always do the minimum to preserve the euro. Doing the minimum, though, will perpetuate the situation where the debtor countries in Europe have to pay tremendous premiums to refinance their debt. The result will be a Europe in which Germany is seen as an imperial power that will not be loved and admired by the rest of Europe - but hated and resisted, because it will perceived as an oppressive power.
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Support Quotes
The integration of Europe was very much led by a Germany that was always willing to pay a little bit extra to reach a compromise that everybody accepted, because Germany was so eager to get European support for reunification. That was called the "farsighted vision," which created the European Union.