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Quotes About Europe

The unemployed in Greece can get a voucher and choose a training program somewhere in Europe to be retrained during this crisis and when this crisis is over, we make sure that that person hasn't fallen off the cliff and can come back into the labor market with new skills to find a job.
~ George Papandreou
I have just explained my idea of how a constructive period of reflection, one that would send a clear message to the citizens of Europe: You should now what our priorities are. For Germany this means: Unemployment is one of one of our biggest problems.
~ Angela Merkel
Travelling the railways of Europe with a century-old guidebook can be disconcerting: fares, food, and drink seem shockingly expensive compared with what they were; trains and paddle-steamers run to unexpected timetables (assuming they're still running at all); and not only states but whole empires have been wiped from the map.
~ Michael Portillo
The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
~ Mary McCarthy
Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
~ Mary McCarthy
It's unfortunate that the U.K. and Europe don't have the kind of culture which esteems legal protections enforced by the courts in the same way as, for example, the U.S. does.
~ Emily Thornberry
Soccer is Europe's biggest sport and the world's biggest sport, so as we look to go into Europe, soccer is the way to do it because of the sport's size and scale, as well as its athletes who know and understand our brand.
~ Maverick Carter
I think in general the American scene is much more focused on bouldering, where in Europe they're more focused on sport climbing.
~ Adam Ondra
English has always had a special fondness for other European languages, a neighborly soft spot - perhaps because Britain has been invaded by speakers of those languages from the onset of its recorded history.
~ Rabih Alameddine
I didn't play the No. 4 spot much at all in Europe.
~ Toni Kukoc
Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing.
~ Harry Johnston
For some reason, lots of terrible things start here and then spread. The Cold War was one. It didn't start in Berlin - it started in Athens in December 1944; the contagion in the eurozone started here in 2010. We are perfectly capable as Europeans of messing things up unnecessarily.
~ Yanis Varoufakis
Australia was a very different world and culture from the one I left in Europe. Life was much more spread out. People drove everywhere. They built higher fences. Neighbours didn't interact so much.
~ Andreja Pejic
In Europe, we packed in Wii Sports with the console, so one way or another, people processed the Wii by enjoying Wii Sports. The unique, interactive nature of the game was spread thanks to the excitement from the consumer.
~ Satoru Iwata
In the past, we saw European leaders speaking against the Jews. Now, we see them speaking against Israel. It is the same anti-Semitism of blood libels, spreading lies, distorting reality and brainwashing people into hating Israel and the Jews.
~ Ayelet Shaked
Spring Break is very strange. I grew up in France, so I don't know Spring Break. That doesn't exist in Europe.
~ Alexandre Aja
When I graduated from college in the spring of 1970, I decided to hitchhike around Europe with my guitar and my backpack. I was gone for about four months.
~ John Oates
Between the summer of 2015 and spring 2016, Austria became one of the European countries most affected by the migration and refugee crisis.
~ Sebastian Kurz
It's been five seasons now that I'm with Spurs, and I've got a little bit frustrated about Europe. We've got the talent to go further than we've done.
~ Hugo Lloris
I have experience and have been in Europe many times, so I know squad rotation is necessary to make everyone in the side stronger.
~ Rafael Benitez
The Europeans governments have massively changed the landscape in Europe. There is no doubt about it. They have put together the European Financial Stability Fund. They have discussed and approved the European Stability Mechanism.
~ Christine Lagarde
A more stable relationship between Poland and Russia based on reconciliation might revive the reunification of Europe.
~ Ivan Krastev
If I had a dream, it would be that most of the countries in the world, and especially in Europe and the U.S... have more alignment on a set of principles of tax and economic reform that would create an environment that would be more consistent first, definitely more stable.
~ Pierre Nanterme
Building a stable, peaceful, and coherent Europe must include Russia.
~ James G. Stavridis