European Union Quotes - Page 8

• Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations.

  Giorgio Napolitano

  Patience, Long, Effort

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• But I do think that Brexit, an exit of Britain from the European Union, would trigger real pressure on the United Kingdom.

  Lionel Barber

  Real, Thinking, Unions

  "The Consequences Of The Brexit Referendum". Interview with Scott Simon, wksu.org. June 11, 2016.

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• It [European Union] has kept the peace in Europe. Countries used to fight and now they talk. We should be attached to that.

  David Cameron

  Country, Fighting, Europe

  "EU referendum campaign recap: David Cameron faces down angry audience member at Brexit debate" by Mikey Smith, www.mirror.co.uk. June 10, 2016.

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• [European Union] a giant cartel that suits big multinationals.

  Nigel Farage

  Giants, Unions, Suits

  "EU referendum campaign recap: David Cameron faces down angry audience member at Brexit debate" by Mikey Smith, www.mirror.co.uk. June 10,2016.

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• I think that what we have heard from the Remain campaign throughout this whole referendum have been dire warnings of the terrible consequences of the British people just taking control of our own destiny.And, the truth is, if we vote to Leave we will be in an economically stronger position. We will be able to take back some of the money that we currently give to the European Union and we can invest it in our priorities.

  Michael Gove

  Destiny, Thinking, People

  "EU referendum: Michael Gove on BBC's Question Time EU Special - as it happened". www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2016.

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• If we leave the European Union, yes there will be bumps in the road, inevitably, but we will be in a better position to deal with them.

  Michael Gove

  Bumps, Unions, Deals

  "EU referendum: Michael Gove on BBC's Question Time EU Special - as it happened" by Andrew Sparrow, Claire Phipps, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2016.

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• My father had a fishing business in Aberdeen destroyed by the European Union and the Common Fisheries Policy.

  Michael Gove

  Father, Fishing, Unions

  "Michael Gove's father denies his company was destroyed by EU policies". Sky News Interview, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2016.

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• I know what it's like to see someone lose their job as a result of the European Union. I saw my father lose his job, I saw his business go to the wall, I saw 24 people who he employed also lose their jobs.

  Michael Gove

  Jobs, Wall, Father

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• One of the things I know about the European Union is that the European Union can destroy jobs.

  Michael Gove

  Jobs, Unions, Knows

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I find it extraordinary that I'm being told I can't trust you the voter to get a government in to protect workers rights and that we need Brussels to defend you, the euro is a broken project we are going to pay, no you are going to pay out of your taxes one bailout out of another and the European union does not protect your jobs.

  Gisela Stuart

  Jobs, Rights, Government

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• What I'd do is not have USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy working with U.S. taxpayers' money to knock off an elected government in Ukraine, which is what they did. I wouldn't try to force the people of Ukraine into a deal with NATO against their interest or into a deal with the European Union, which is against their economic interest.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Government, Ukraine, People

  "Democratic presidential candidate accuses US of provoking Ukrainian crisis". www.rt.com. March 5, 2014.

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• I'm a great supporter of the European Union. I didn't support entry to the Euro, not because I'm against it in principle but because I didn't think it was economically right for Britain. But that doesn't make me any less pro-European.

  Gordon Brown

  Thinking, Support, Unions

  "Gordon Brown: The TIME Interview". Interview with Catherine Mayer, content.time.com. May 10, 2007.

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• The New World Order is a more palatable name for the Anglo American world empire. It's the planetary domination of London, New York, Washington over the rest of the world. It's hard to get people to join that or think they have a part in it if you called it the Anglo American world empire. If you call it the New World Order, then people in India or some place like that or the European Union might think, "Well, there's something there for us too." But that's not what it is; it's the Anglo American New World Order.

  Alex Jones

  New York, Thinking, Order

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• Kosovo's destiny is clearly to join the European Union at some point.

  Emma Bonino

  Destiny, Europe, Unions

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• There is no Croatian dream. There is no European Union dream. There is no Chinese communist dream, except maybe to get out. But there is and always has been an American dream. And the dream is possible. The dream can become real.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dream, Real, Chinese

  Source: origin-www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Europe is nervous. Already rattled this year by the shock of the Brexit vote, the European Union needs stability in Italy, a country notorious for its instability.

  Matteo Renzi

  Country, Vote, Nervous

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• EU tech companies face massive global competitors from Silicon Valley and China. Our goal should be to create real European champions and not to focus on a narrow competition between European states. I strongly believe the European Union can help a lot there by promoting a homogeneous and startup-friendly framework that could help European digital champions to become truly global.

  Axelle Lemaire

  Real, Believe, Goal

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• Trump's election has opened many people's eyes in Europe to how valuable the European Union and international cooperation are.

  Cecilia Malmstrom

  Eye, Cooperation, Election

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Effectively, the EU is a very powerful bureaucracy, dominated now by the German elite, which is backed by the rest of the European Union members.

  Tariq Ali

  Powerful, Unions, Members

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• There were various different keys in which European history had tended to be written. One is the lyrical key, the idea that somehow, in Bretton-Woods in 1945, a bunch of well-intentioned men got together and said, "This can't go on; let's build a European Union." And it just wasn't like that.

  Tony Judt

  Men, Together, Different

  "Postwar". Interview With Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. December 20, 2005.

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• [Russians would like to] undermine the West and its institutions, create doubts about NATO, create doubts about the European Union, support nationalists on the right just as the Soviet communists supported communists on the left. Weaken the West in general and create an atmosphere in which we`re uncertain about ourselves.

  Daniel Fried

  Support, Atmosphere, Doubt

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Membership in the European Community, now the European Union, has enabled Ireland to re-find its sense of participation - cultural, political, social - at the European level. I think that also opens up possibilities for Ireland as a European country to look outward - to look particularly, for example, at countries to which a lot of Irish people emigrated, to our links - our human links - with the United States, with Canada, with Australia, with New Zealand. And to look also, because of our history, at our links to the developing countries.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Thinking, Australia

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Membership in the European Community, now the European Union, has helped Ireland to take its place as a European country with all the member states, including Britain. It has therefore helped the maturing of a good bilateral relationship with Britain, lifting part of the burden of history.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Community, Unions

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I have always been conscious of the importance and the strength of nationalism, and this has led me straight to the acknowledgment of the nationalism of the Palestinian people. I believe there is no way around this: We have to have a solution based on two national states, which will hopefully live and grow together and establish a relationship between them in something like a European Union.

  Uri Avnery

  Believe, Two, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• I'm not very enthusiastic about smaller nations forming their own states, particularly those in the West, where they would, after gaining 'independence', remain in the alliances that are oppressing and plundering the entire world: like NATO or the European Union. The breaking of the great country of Yugoslavia into small pieces was a hostile, evil design by the West. The dissolution of Czechoslovakia after the so-called "Velvet Revolution" was a total idiocy. But Catalonia, if it became independent, would become one of the richest parts of Europe.

  Andre Vltchek

  Country, Independent, Evil

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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