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Quotes About EU

If there is a vote in Britain to leave the E.U. there is a democratic imperative to provide Irish citizens with the right to vote in a border poll to end partition and retain a role in the E.U.
~ Martin McGuinness
Once we leave the E.U., we will be able to slash the £600 million of costs of Brussels bureaucracy that hold back our businesses.
~ Priti Patel
Don't leave criticism of the E.U. to those who hate it.
~ Emmanuel Macron
I am absolutely convinced that the E.U. will still be around. I am convinced the U.K. will be sitting at that table and not negotiating an exit, but being there to stay.
~ Mark Rutte
After Brexit, we need to design a modern and fair immigration system which attracts talent and investment from the E.U. and the rest of the world.
~ Munira Mirza
I think people are justifiably fed up of hearing migration talked about at the E.U. level but not seeing anything happen in practice.
~ Sebastian Kurz
There is still the EU, but also individual states, regions, and city-states, with liberalism barely holding off the forces of populist nationalism. To say that this does not undermine the strength of NATO is to be in denial
~ Robert D. Kaplan
As we have been claiming, the global capitalist order cannot be (and to date has not been) defeated with local or national resistance; what we need instead is an even more combative universalism, or what we've been calling universality, in the form of transnational governance bodies such as the EU.
~ Zahi Zalloua
Any attempt to wriggle, especially from leadership candidates who campaigned to leave the EU by focusing on immigration, will be unacceptable to the public.
~ Theresa May
Germany must continue to champion the world's biggest free single market, and under its leadership, the EU can overcome its internal differences.
~ Anthony Glees
The promise to leave the European Union, end the supremacy of EU law and take back control of our democracy. With my leadership, it will be delivered.
~ Michael Gove
The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc. We must not be weighed down by an insistence on a one size fits all approach which implies that all countries want the same level of integration. The fact is that they don't and we shouldn't assert that they do.
~ David Cameron
Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.
~ Nigel Farage
I am a passionate, pragmatic, and positive believer in Brexit, and with my three-step plan, we can decisively leave the E.U.
~ Andrea Leadsom
Those who claim that to leave the E.U. would damage the City are the very same as those who in the past confidently predicted, with a classic failure of understanding, that the City would be gravely damaged if the U.K. failed to adopt the euro as its currency.
~ Nigel Lawson
If the EU and the US pressured Israel for change and forced the end of the blockade, we might get somewhere. That pressure should also come culturally, with from without and within.
~ Robert Del Naja
The world's poor have discovered that the E.U. (that's the country we live in, no point pretending there's anywhere called Britain any more) has absolutely no clue how to stop determined immigrants.
~ Peter Hitchens
We have the eurozone. Could we accept to be cleared, regulated, and de facto have inflows and outflows from a country that has decided to leave the E.U.? For me, definitely not.
~ Emmanuel Macron
Today further EU targeted sanctions on Syria come into force. The message is clear and unambiguous: those responsible for the repression will be singled out and held accountable.
~ William Hague
We must be out of the protectionist common external tariff, which mainly protects inefficient E.U. industries at the cost to British consumers.
~ Jacob Rees-Mogg
If, like me, you believe that your taxes should be spent on your priorities in this country by politicians accountable to you then you should vote to leave the E.U.
~ Priti Patel
For example, new EU member Poland survived the communist era without collectivizing its small family farms. But now that they've joined the EU, collectivization is mandatory.
~ Rick Steves
However, every racist bigot in the UK did vote to leave the EU. All of them.
~ Robert Llewellyn
To what extent was this David Cameron's fault? It's hard to think of a more complete definition of political failure than an essentially pro-EU Prime Minister who plots to defeat his enemies on the right, and by doing so ejects his country from the EU by mistake,
~ Andrew Marr