European Union Quotes - Page 2

• Both the Eurozone and European Union is like the end of the Roman Empire. It's already started. In a few years' time it will not be there anymore. Don't ask me if it will be two years or ten years but the end is near. Like the Roman Empire, it's gone.

  Geert Wilders

  Years, Two, Gone

  Source: www1.cbn.com

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• It is not acceptable that European Union countries are divided into those who give and those who take.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Country, Giving, Unions

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• We must go back to teach Europeans to love Europe.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Europe, Teach, Euro

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• A European currency will lead to member-nations transferring their sovereignty over financial and wage policies as well as in monetary affairs... It is an illusion to think that States can hold on to their autonomy over taxation policies.

  Hans Tietmeyer

  Thinking, Europe, Taxation

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• One basic formula for understanding the Community is this: 'Take five broken empires, add the sixth one later, and make one big neo-colonial empire out of it all.'

  Johan Galtung

  Europe, Broken, Community

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• We need to move forward, from the common currency to the banking union to a common financial policy and, in the middle-term, to a common foreign and security policy. That will take time, because we need to figure out how to deal with those countries that don't always want a more tightly integrated European Union.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Country, Moving Forward, Want

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I am for joining a free trade zone. The European Union is not such zone, but a zone of raging bureaucracy which stears every hectolitre of wine, and every tone of beef.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Wine, Trade Zone, Joining

  Blog, April 29, 2009.

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• Turkey, with its political intolerance, as I have described it, is prepared to march forward, to break with its taboo about the Armenians, and is making great strides with respect to human rights and freedom of speech so that it can join the European Union. This alone shows how powerful the European idea is.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Powerful, Rights, Turkeys

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• The whole project of European Union is one in deep trouble.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Unions, Trouble, Projects

  "Tracing The 43-Year History Of The U.K. In The European Union". "All Things Considered" with Ray Suarez, www.npr.org. June 25, 2016.

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• I have always found the word 'Europe' on the lips of those who wanted something from others which they dared not demand in their own names!

  Otto von Bismarck

  Europe, Names, Demand

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• I have been supporting the European Union, but we are still a work in progress. We have to become more of a United States of Europe. We should talk about electing a president of the E.U., rather than having one selected from the heads of government.

  George Papandreou

  Europe, Government, President

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• Because with courage and conviction I believe we can deliver a more flexible, adaptable and open European Union in which the interests and ambitions of all its members can be met.

  David Cameron

  Believe, Ambition, Unions

  "The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". Bloomberg speech, www.independent.co.uk. January 2013.

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• Brexit is the people of Britain who are fed up with the European Union dominating their lives, and they want accountability.

  Ted Cruz

  People, Accountability, Unions

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. July 18, 2016.

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• Europe is my home, Europe is my continent. Europe is where we live. The European Union is a political bureaucratic organization that took away our identity and our national sovereignty. So, I would get rid of the European Union and be a nation-state again.

  Geert Wilders

  Home, Europe, Organization

  Source: www1.cbn.com

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• We will have to create an avant-garde.... We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde.

  Jacques Delors

  Europe, Avant Garde, Unions

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• Article 50 governs the exit from the European Union and here there can also be no renegotiation.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Unions, Exit, Articles

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Political Will, Europe, Democracy

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• I like this idea of the re-foundation of the European Union, maybe it can be done, because Europe - I do not say is unique, but it has a force, a culture, a history that cannot be wasted, and we must do everything so that the European Union has the strength and also the inspiration to make it go forward. That's what I think.

  Pope Francis

  Inspiration, Unique, Thinking

  "Full text of Pope Francis' in-flight interview from Mexico to Rome". www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 18, 2016.

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• It is an illusion to think that [EU] states can hold on to their autonomy.

  Hans Tietmeyer

  Thinking, Illusion, States

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• I also believe that we have an extraordinary opportunity for the United States and European Union to lead the world in developing and implementing new and more efficient technologies - smart electrical grids and electrical vehicles.

  Hillary Clinton

  Smart, Believe, Technology

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• You can't deepen the European Union against the wishes of the European countries.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Country, Wish, Unions

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

  Nigel Farage

  Growth, Unemployment, Unions

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• The integration of Europe was very much led by a Germany that was always willing to pay a little bit extra to reach a compromise that everybody accepted, because Germany was so eager to get European support for reunification. That was called the "farsighted vision," which created the European Union.

  George Soros

  Europe, Support, Vision

  "George Soros on the Euro Crisis". Interview with Der Spiegel, www.georgesoros.com. June 26, 2012.

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• The vast majority of Muslim residents of the United Kingdom voted to stay in the EU. And the balance of the British population voted to leave the European Union.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Balance, Majority, Population

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• While the United States (US) can view the war as a success, Europe must see it as a failure for it and, in particular, for the institutions of the European Union (EU).

  Paul Virilio

  War, Views, Europe

  Source: ctheory.net

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