Emmanuel Todd - "The day France decides, the game is over. The euro is dead."

"Good luck to America with the new German problem!"

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"The French ruling class are the first responsible for this massive blunder."

"The euro, from a French point of view, is one of the most extraordinary mistake in the history of France"

"I'm just taking the very fact that people think that it is unthinkable to get out of a human creation...This is basically a religious problem."

"Why no decision can be taken? Why nothing happens in the face of massive cultural, social and economic disasters?"

"France was the great promoter of the euro and now the key element in the system. The day France decides, the game is over. The euro is dead."

"The euro is basically something archaic."

"In France, we are not so keen on having the Germans tell us to lose our sovereignty!" (Joke!)

Harper's conference, October 2013