European Union Quotes - Page 4

• We believe that the European Union is facing a truly historic choice.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Believe, Europe, Choices

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• As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Religious, Europe, Leader

  "Rediscovering Religious Values in the Market Economy" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2011.

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• The ultimate goal is not simply a superhighway, but an integrated North American Union--complete with a currency, a cross-national bureaucracy, and virtually borderless travel within the Union. Like the European Union, a North American Union would represent another step toward the abolition of national sovereignty altogether.

  Ron Paul

  Goal, Unions, Steps

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• The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State.

  Jean Monnet

  Europe, Fusion, Economic

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• I should also say that apart from the negotiations that are taking place within the WTO, we are ourselves involved in all manner of bilateral negotiations, or, if they are not bilateral, with the South African Customs Union and the European Union. All the member countries of the European Union have now ratified the agreement that we have with the EU and that opens up the EU market in various ways.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Country, Agreement, Way

  Source: www.gov.za

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• It isn't easy for everyone in Germany to make ends meet through well-paid work in Germany. You have to have sufficient skills and work hard. And I also know that we have much too much poverty and inequality here. Still, our parents and grandparents built an incredibly prosperous and peaceful country. One shouldn't, of course, play down the degree to which this is dependent on our economic strength. The truth is that Moscow, Beijing and Washington have one thing in common: They don't value the European Union at all. They disregard it.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Country, Hard Work, Grandparent

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• Having the United Kingdom in the European Union gives us much greater confidence about the strength of the transatlantic union and is part of the cornerstone of institutions built after World War II that has made the world safer and more prosperous.

  Barack Obama

  War, Giving, World

  Interview with Jon Sopel, www.bbc.com. July 24, 2015.

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• The European Union and Russia have an identical viewpoint. We have condemned any potential revision of the ABM treaty, believing that such a revision will involve a risk of proliferation that will be very dangerous for the future.

  Jacques Chirac

  Believe, Russia, Risk

  "Debates of the Senate". www.parl.gc.ca. February, 8, 2001.

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• Today, the European Union is busy transferring aid. If they can build infrastructure in Spain, roads, highways ... why do they refuse to use the same aid to build the same infrastructure in our countries?

  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

  Country, Spain, Use

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• Not partial membership of the European Union or anything that leaves us half in, half out. No, the United Kingdom is leaving the European Union.

  Theresa May

  Leaving, Unions, Kingdoms

  "British Prime Minister Theresa May Outlines Plan To Leave European Union". "All Things Considered" with Kelly Mcevers, bpr.org. January 17, 2017.

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• One of the reasons I decided to apply for American citizenship after something like a quarter of century of living here on a British, European Union passport and a green card, was my identification with the United States in the post-September 11th period.

  Christopher Hitchens

  United States, Cards, Unions

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There are exceptions of course, like for instance the Baltic States, which are members of the European Union, together with Ukraine and Moldova, as well. In those countries, the governments have been reformed as a result of elections.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Government, Ukraine

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• One of the issues that has been an issue in how we deal with net migration up until now is that we haven't been able to have any control over freedom of movement from the European Union. We will have that control in the future once we leave the EU.

  Theresa May

  Issues, Movement, Unions

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• There's a whole range of areas that we'll be looking at, so I'm not at this very early stage going to specify any particular areas. As you will know, there will be a limit to how far we can go in terms of a formal free trade agreement until we've actually left the European Union. I think there is much that we [with Donald Trump] can do in the interim in terms of looking at how we can remove some of the barriers to trade in a number of areas.

  Theresa May

  Thinking, Numbers, Agreement

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I'm convinced that a trade deal between the U.S. and the U.K. is in the national interest of both countries and will cement the crucial relationship that exists between us, particularly as the U.K. leaves the European Union and reaches out to the world.

  Theresa May

  Country, World, Unions

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I'm against the European Union, but I am very much in favor of Europe.

  Geert Wilders

  Europe, Unions, Favors

  Source: www1.cbn.com

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• The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States. It should help us adjust to the development of China.

  Laurent Fabius

  Europe, Balance, Unions

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• You still hear some people speaking as though we could decide whether the Common market existed or not.

  Hugh Gaitskell

  People, Common, Stills

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• The Financial Times is pro-British membership of the European Union. We have taken that position for decades. But we are not starry-eyed about the European Union. And we do not believe and have not believed for at least 10 years that Britain should be part of the euro.

  Lionel Barber

  Believe, Taken, Years

  "The Consequences Of The Brexit Referendum". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 11, 2016.

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• Peace is brittle and a big burden on our shoulders so we need ... concrete help from the European Union and the European Commission, we can get more support together than on our own, to maximize the gains for our peoples.

  Edi Rama

  Peace, Support, Together

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• Britain is leaving and has de facto left the European Union; however, it has not withdrawn from its special relationship with the United States and I believe that the UK's relations with Russia depend on Britain's special relationship with the United States rather than on its presence in or absence from the European Union.

  Vladimir Putin

  Believe, Russia, Leaving

  Source: thesaker.is

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• I am interested in making sure that the people of Cyprus will be able to live in a reunited Cyprus, where they are free, where there's a democracy, freedom and Cyprus is a member of the European Union.

  Alexis Tsipras

  People, Democracy, Cyprus

  Source: time.com

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• Basically, Herman van Rompuy wants the European Union to become a debt union, which may be acceptable to some of the southern countries who are effectively bust. To the northern countries, it is not.

  Nigel Farage

  Country, Southern, Debt

  "Welcome to the D€bt Union". UK Independence Party Website, June 29, 2012.

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• It is conceivable that at some point a truly united and powerful European Union could become a global political rival to the United States.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Powerful, Political, United States

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (1998). “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives”, p.75, Basic Books

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• We are a pivotal part of the European Union. Any destabilization of Greece would totally rock the boat.

  Antonis Samaras

  Rocks, Unions, Boat

  Source: www.slate.com

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