In the end, the big countries in Europe . . . must take a decision on how to co-ordinate monetary integration with more effective co-ordinated fiscal policy. – US president Barack Obama on the euro zone crisis
The Government should be even more ambitious in cutting the public deficit ratio, which is still at double-digit level." – Departing European Central Bank chief economist Jürgen Stark on Ireland
"We have a difficult job to do, we're doing it, it's working, we're confident it's going to succeed and that kind of encouragement from the sideline, we don't need it and it doesn't help what we have to do." – Tá naiste Eamon Gilmore in response to Dr Stark
"Need a miracle." – F acebook status posted by Kweku Adoboli, a trader at Swiss bank UBS alleged to have lost $2 billion (€1.45 billion) in unauthorised trades