(EN) Giuliano Amato, With elections we lose the euro and honor, in il Sole 24 Ore, 13 novembre 2011. URL consultato il 18 agosto 2023 (archiviato il 27 giugno 2020).
«At the beginning of September of that year, the Bundesbank told the Bank of Italy that supporting the lira jeopardized the solidity of the Deutsche mark and therefore of the entire system»