European Union Quotes - Page 9

• I felt we needed someone to lead this country who believed heart and soul in leaving the European Union.

  Michael Gove

  Country, Heart, Leaving

  "Michael Gove tells the BBC that Boris Johnson wasn't up to the Tory leader job". Interview with Laura Kuenssberg, www.mirror.co.uk. June 30, 2016.

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• In order to be able to reduce migration we need to be outside the European Union.

  Michael Gove

  Order, Needs, Unions

  "Michael Gove tells the BBC that Boris Johnson wasn't up to the Tory leader job". Interview with Laura Kuenssberg, www.mirror.co.uk. June 30, 2016.

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• I'll negotiate with toughness, and with great attention to detail to get the best possible deal for Britain. It's only when we are outside the European Union that we can at last bring those numbers [of migrants] under control in the way that the public want.

  Michael Gove

  Numbers, Migrants, Details

  Interview with Laura Kuenssberg, www.mirror.co.uk. June 30, 2016.

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• The British people voted for change.They sent us a clear instruction that they want Britain to leave the European Union and end the supremacy of EU law.

  Michael Gove

  Law, People, Unions

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• In particular, I wanted to help build a team behind Boris Johnson so that a politician who argued for leaving the European Union could lead us to a better future.

  Michael Gove

  Team, Leaving, Unions

  "Boris Johnson pulls out of race to be UK prime minister" by Holly Ellyatt, www.cnbc.com. June 30, 2016.

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• Germany will continue to play a central - perhaps even a more important - role in the European Union. I think that we will all miss the pragmatic approach of the British, however, particularly in those long nights of negotiation.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Night, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I assume that our colleagues from both the United States and the European Union will proceed from current humanitarian law and ensure political freedoms and rights of all people, including those who are living in the territory of Baltic states after the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

  Vladimir Putin

  Law, Rights, People

  Source: www.russianembassy.org

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• I trust Angela Merkel, she is a very open person. She is also subject to certain constraints and limitations. But she is honestly trying to settle the crisis, also in the south-east of Ukraine. However, what the European Union is doing with those sanctions is nothing but a theatre of the absurd.

  Vladimir Putin

  Ukraine, Theatre, Trying

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If this Constitution does not have the support of the people of Europe and on reflection is not deemed to signpost a structure of Europe of the twenty-first century, then we simply have to go back to the drawing board.

  Gisela Stuart

  Reflection, Europe, Drawing

  Gisela Stuart (2003). “The Making of Europe's Constitution”

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• European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.

  Tarja Halonen

  Discipline, Citizens, Unions

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• Our future begins on January 1 1999. The euro is Europe's key to the 21st century. The era of solo national fiscal and economic policy is over.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Keys, Europe, Eras

  "Welcome to Euroland" by Alex Brummer, Mark Milner, Martin Walker, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 1999.

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• The euro is a sickly premature infant, the result of an over-hasty monetary union.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Europe, Unions, Results

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• Before we talk about further accessions, we have to consolidate the European Union internally. People are increasingly losing faith in the EU's effectiveness.

  Martin Schulz

  Effectiveness, People, Unions

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• No government dependent on a democratic vote could possibly agree in advance to the sacrifices which any adequate plan for European Union must involve. The people must be led slowly and unconsciously into the abandonment of their traditional economic defences, not asked.

  Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft

  Sacrifice, Government, People

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• When we said that no more areas of power should go to the EU we were right. And now thanks to the European Union Act 2011, by law that cannot happen without a referendum. And we are just as right that the EU has more power in our national life than it should, and I believe as strongly as I ever have that when the right moment comes this party should set out to reduce it.

  William Hague

  Party, Believe, Law

  Conservative party conference, Manchester, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2011.

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• Europe lacks leadership and a sense of mission and too many people don't feel a part of it.

  Peter Mandelson

  Europe, People, Missions

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• Continuous wars - which we have now had since 2001 - starting with Afghanistan, continuing on to Iraq. And even since Iraq, it's been more or less continuous. The appalling war in Libya, which has wrecked that country and wrecked that part of the world, and which isn't over by any means. The indirect Western intervention in Syria, which has created new monsters. These are policies, which if carried out by any individual government, would be considered extremist. Now, they're being carried out collectively by the United States, backed by some of the countries of the European Union.

  Tariq Ali

  Country, War, Mean

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The European Union is a union of the extreme center. It's a banker's union. You see how they operate in country after country, appointing technocrats to take over and run countries for long periods. They did it in Greece; they did it in Italy; they considered it in other parts of Europe.

  Tariq Ali

  Running, Country, Europe

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The European Union is effectively a union dominated by the German political and economic elite. Its main function is to serve as a nucleus for financial capitalism and to ease the road for that capitalism. The other functions just irritate everyone: it's undemocratic; decisions are not made by parliament; the European Parliament is not sovereign.

  Tariq Ali

  Decision, Political, Ease

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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