European Union Quotes - Page 3

• In 2012, the far-right Golden Dawn won 21 seats in Greece's parliamentary election, the right-wing Jobbik gained ground in my native Hungary, and the National Front's Marine Le Pen received strong backing in France's presidential election. Growing support for similar forces across Europe points to an inescapable conclusion: the continent's prolonged financial crisis is creating a crisis of values that is now threatening the European Union itself.

  George Soros

  Strong, Money, Marine

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• Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power? In other words, not just a trading bloc but a political entity. Do we realise that our nation states, taken individually, would find it far more difficult to assert their existence and their identity on the world stage.

  Romano Prodi

  Taken, Europe, Political

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• The European Union's enlargement is part of the natural process of integration and globalisation that is underway in the world today.

  Vladimir Putin

  World, Unions, Enlargement

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• The European Union can now act like a major power, at least that is what the European Union tells us.

  John Bolton

  Unions, Majors

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The two key words for the European Union are creativity and fruitfulness. That's the challenge.

  Pope Francis

  Creativity, Keys, Two

  "Church Should Apologize To Gays, Pope Francis Says". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. June 27, 2016.

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• Countries will cooperate with each other, and are more likely to cooperate with each other when they share a common culture, as is most dramatically illustrated in the European Union. But other groupings of countries are emerging in East Asia and in South America. Basically, as I said, these politics will be oriented around, in large part, cultural similarities and cultural antagonism.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, America, East

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• Establishing proper economic governance that allows the Eurozone to undertake the integration it needs whilst protecting the interests of the single market for all 28, the rights of member states who are not in the Euro - including of course the UK - is really important for the future of the European Union.

  George Osborne

  Rights, Important, Needs

  Source: www.economist.com

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• France would be reluctant to embrace any proposal by the European Commission to slash agricultural tariffs if it threatened the European Union's Common Agriculture Policy .

  Christine Lagarde

  Agriculture, Would Be, Unions

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• As a European Union member state, as a country committed throughout all its history to the fight for the values that I have made my own, as the fifth world power, as a country that has marked my life and European Union houses part of European Union, France can act if it wishes to do so.

  Julian Assange

  Life, Country, Fighting

  "France rejects WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's 'protection' request" by Laura Smith-Spark and Sandrine Amiel, www.cnn.com. July 3, 2015.

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• France has a special position: We are Continental Europe's nuclear power and a permanent member of the UN Security Council. This special role, though, only makes sense if France fills it as a member state of the European Union. France cannot play this role alone, it must be seen as a part of Europe. I have always insisted on that.

  Emmanuel Macron

  Special, Nuclear Power, Make Sense

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• The "European Union" happens to be composed of people who hate our guts. It is the continent where Moveon.org-style lunatics are the friendly, pro-American types and the rest are crazy Muslims.

  Ann Coulter

  Hate, Crazy, People

  "No Wonder They're Afraid Of Brit Hume" by Ann Coulter, www.anncoulter.com. May 2, 2007.

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• As you probably know, some American politicians and American journalists refer to Washington, DC as the "capital of the free world." But it seems to me that Brussels, which boasts 1,000 years of history and which serves as the capital of Belgium, the home of the European Union, and the headquarters for NATO, this city has its own legitimate claim to that title.

  Joe Biden

  Home, Years, Cities

  "Biden Says Brussels Could Be 'Capital of the Free World'", www.foxnews.com. May 25, 2010.

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• Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism. We had doubts about the Kyoto Protocol, we wanted reasoning from our partners in the European Union, in the IPCC. Formal requests had been sent to these organizations. But we have not received responses yet, which suggests that no coherent answers can be offered. What we hear is 'it is not comprehensive responses that matter, we will not give them anyway; what is important is whether you believe us or not'.

  Andrey Illarionov

  Believe, Kyoto Protocol, Organization

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• Thanks to the euro, our pockets will soon hold solid evidence of a European identity. We need to build on this, and make the euro more than a currency and Europe more than a territory... In the next six months, we will talk a lot about political union, and rightly so. Political union is inseparable from economic union. Stronger growth and Euorpean integration are related issues. In both areas we will take concrete steps forward.

  Laurent Fabius

  Europe, Issues, Political

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• A united Europe is our Continent's only chance to avoid falling off the world's radar. The heads of government of Germany, France and the United Kingdom also know that their voice is only heard internationally because they speak through the megaphone of the European Union.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Fall, Government, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The European Union spends most of its time either suing me, torturing me, criticizing me or condemning me for lowering the cost of air travel all over Europe.

  Michael O'Leary

  Air, Europe, Suing

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• We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this British sensibility than we can drain the English Channel. And because of this sensibility, we come to the European Union with a frame of mind that is more practical than emotional.

  David Cameron

  Character, Independent, Emotional

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• The will of the British people must now be put into effect as quickly as possible. Under Article 50 of the EU Treaty the UK must leave the European Union within two years at the latest.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Years, Two, People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Over the years, the European Union and the United States have worked together to ensure peace and prosperity for our citizens and for people around the world.

  Donald Tusk

  Years, People, Together

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The European Union should not be prescribing an identity. We know what that's like, when a government tells its people how it should look; what it should be doing. That's the first step towards totalitarianism.

  Bernard-Henri Levy

  Government, People, Identity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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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• European Union partners never said European Union partners're going to renege on any promises, European Union partners said that European Union partners promises concern a four-year parliamentary term, european Union partners will be spaced out in an optimal way, in a way that is in tune with our bargaining stance in Europe and also with the fiscal position of the Greek state.

  Yanis Varoufakis

  Years, Europe, Greek

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• For the institutions of the European Union are at present incomplete. A European Senate is badly needed to complete them. By creating an upper chamber in the European parliament, a new bridge could be built between national political classes, which retain democratic legitimacy, and the decision-making process in Brussels. Such a Senate should be recruited by indirect election from exisiting national parliaments.

  Larry Siedentop

  Bridges, Class, Creating

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• I think that what started out as a European Union originally was probably a really wonderful and world-changing idea, the idea of a kind of cooperation and interdependence between countries. But the idea that individualization would work on common ground, not on conflict, not against each other, but to find how each benefitted from the other I thought was an incredibly hopeful and positive possibility.

  Tavis Smiley

  Country, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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