French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged Europe to never leave the euro, despite widespread fears for the future of the currency.
Economists have expressed concern that the debt crisis underway in Greece, Ireland, Spain and Portugal could mean the end of the common European currency.
But in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, Sarkozy said he believes the euro will survive despite its current difficulties.
"We never leave the euro. Never!" € spells in Europe with the euro is in Europe. Europe has meant 60 years of peace on our continent. We never abandon him. "
Sarkozy said the euro was at the center of European unity.
"If Europe has become the continent's most stable and peaceful world, because we built our predecessors, the European Union.
"Imagine that we draw from this is to ignore the fact that people who have been at odds for centuries, we now have a wish, and that a lasting peace."
The French president said that member countries of the euro could not even consider allowing the currency to weaken.
"The consequences of the euro would be a catastrophe if we can not even imagine, we can not even play with this idea."
It was a warning to speculators and those who seem to take to see the euro continue disorders.
"For those who want to invest in the euro. Be careful how you invest, because we have chosen"
Sarkozy also took the United States, saying his "friends across the Atlantic, that despite the situation of the U.S. dollar as the dominant currency in the world, the country has no right to take all the rules.
"Nobody wants to weaken the dollar - the world needs the dollar The dollar is there, will remain the dominant currency in the world ..
"But the ruling does not mean only the change of currency."
He said it was natural that each nation to act in the best interest of their own currency because it was not only an economic but political.
Sarkozy, who assumed the presidency of both the G-8 and G-20 in 2011, called on world nations to rethink their old ways of working.
"We went into the 21st century 11 years ago already, and we're still operating under the rules of the twentieth century."
He said it was "crazy" as Africa, South America and India does not occupy a permanent seat on the Security Council of the UN, "it is not reasonable."
Economists have expressed concern that the debt crisis underway in Greece, Ireland, Spain and Portugal could mean the end of the common European currency.
But in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, Sarkozy said he believes the euro will survive despite its current difficulties.
"We never leave the euro. Never!" € spells in Europe with the euro is in Europe. Europe has meant 60 years of peace on our continent. We never abandon him. "
Sarkozy said the euro was at the center of European unity.
"If Europe has become the continent's most stable and peaceful world, because we built our predecessors, the European Union.
"Imagine that we draw from this is to ignore the fact that people who have been at odds for centuries, we now have a wish, and that a lasting peace."
The French president said that member countries of the euro could not even consider allowing the currency to weaken.
"The consequences of the euro would be a catastrophe if we can not even imagine, we can not even play with this idea."
It was a warning to speculators and those who seem to take to see the euro continue disorders.
"For those who want to invest in the euro. Be careful how you invest, because we have chosen"
Sarkozy also took the United States, saying his "friends across the Atlantic, that despite the situation of the U.S. dollar as the dominant currency in the world, the country has no right to take all the rules.
"Nobody wants to weaken the dollar - the world needs the dollar The dollar is there, will remain the dominant currency in the world ..
"But the ruling does not mean only the change of currency."
He said it was natural that each nation to act in the best interest of their own currency because it was not only an economic but political.
Sarkozy, who assumed the presidency of both the G-8 and G-20 in 2011, called on world nations to rethink their old ways of working.
"We went into the 21st century 11 years ago already, and we're still operating under the rules of the twentieth century."
He said it was "crazy" as Africa, South America and India does not occupy a permanent seat on the Security Council of the UN, "it is not reasonable."