Quotes About EU

As we exit the E.U., there must be a new approach to immigration that has the consent of the British people and is managed in their interests.

2018 is an incredibly important election year, not just with the important midterms here in the U.S., but you just had the Mexican elections. You have Brazil. You have India coming up at the beginning of next year. There's an assortment of elections around the EU. We're very serious about this. We know that we need to get this right.

In an innovative proposal linked to basic income that has attracted interest across the European Union, Philippe van Parijs has suggested that every EU resident (presumably, legal resident) would receive a Euro-Dividend averaging €200 per month, paid for by a 20 per cent value added tax.11 This would amount to about 10 per cent of EU GDP.

I will be Madame Frexit if the European Union doesn't give us back our monetary, legislative, territorial, and budget sovereignty.

For the European Union, Russia is as important politically and economically as China is to the U.S.

Governments don't want to be the last ones in the digital sphere if their people and businesses are already there. We have to make clear that the free movement of services in the E.U. also applies in the digital sphere. The shortcut is to create a digital union.

I want us to move as quickly as we can towards a free trade deal between the U.K. and the U.S.A. that would be good for both of us. That would also send a signal to the European Union that there's a bigger world outside of the European Union, and Britain can manage just nicely.

The heart of the matter is that the very nature of the European Union, and of this country's relationship with it, has fundamentally changed after the coming into being of the European monetary union and the creation of the eurozone, of which - quite rightly - we are not a part.

There have been major disagreements within the European Union.

Our objective must therefore be to ensure EU better regulation contributes towards delivering a modern European Union which relentlessly focuses on building a dynamic and innovative economy equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

If we leave the European Union, there will be an immediate economic shock that will hit financial markets. People will not know what the future looks like.

The European Union needs to reinvent its security system. It needs to break the stovepipes that prevent sharing information, enforcing borders and protecting citizens.

What's a fact is that we give more than £350 million to the European Union and hand over control of that money to the European Union every week.

We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.

I have specifically argued that we need to change our relationship with the European Union by fundamentally reforming not just our relationship but the European Union itself.

A U.K. vote to exit the European Union could have significant economic repercussions.

I would go to the European institutions, I would demand for the French people four sovereignties: territorial - our borders; monetary and budgetary; economic; and legislative. Either the European Union says yes to me, or they would say no, and I would say to the French, there is no only other solution but to leave the E.U.

If the European Union wants to be an address where civilizations meet, it must take Turkey in.

I believe the United Kingdom will be worse off outside the E.U. It will not have the influence it has in the world today.

The vote in the United Kingdom in favor of leaving the E.U. attested to the loss of elite influence.

A country which has a population 99% as their faith in Islam can also be a country which are subscribing to the universal values of the E.U.

Universities have a big role to play... making it very clear to their counterparts, their networks, that the U.K. is not walking away from the world. We still value multilateral cooperation, we still see the EU as a significant partner.

It's irresponsible to scare E.U. nationals in the U.K. by hinting that their status might change after Brexit.

The E.U. cannot act as guardian of the post-Cold War status quo without risking a collapse of Europe's current institutional infrastructure.