" German officials knew it in 1964, as they knew it in 1992: for the French elites, a common currency with Germany was an attempt to neuter Germany, indeed to conquer the Bundesbank without firing a single shot. German decision makers, especially Bundesbank officials, would never allow themselves to forget that. But "

― Yanis Varoufakis , And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future