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Quotes About European Union

by 2016 the wealthy, selfish countries of the European Union were rich enough to take care of themselves. Jeffersonian neo-isolationists wanted the United States to define its interests as narrowly as possible, to withdraw from contested theaters like the Middle East, to scale back and even to eliminate the American commitment to Europe, and to avoid military engagement wherever possible.
~ Walter Russell Mead
'Ever closer union' is one of the totemically controversial phrases in the European Union's Treaties. It seems to give weight to the view that the scheme is designed to end in a single state and that those who agreed the texts have long know this, even if they have been unwilling to admit it to the British people.
~ Jacob Rees-Mogg
I will do everything I can... to make sure that Poland sticks to a development that fosters the rule of law, democracy.
~ Frans Timmermans
Brexit stops Britain from being Great Britain.
~ Layla Moran
Those who advocated Brexit, the departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union, imagined a British nation-state, though such a thing never existed. There was a British Empire, and then there was Britain as a member of the European Union. The move to separate from the EU is not a step backward onto firm ground, but a leap into the unknown.
~ Timothy Snyder
One of Russia's long-range bombers, a Tu-95 built to drop atomic bombs on the United States, was renamed "Izborsk" in honor of the club. In case anyone failed to notice this sign of Kremlin backing, Prokhanov was invited to fly in the cockpit of the aircraft. In the years to come, this and other Tu-95s would regularly approach the airspace of the member states of the European Union,
~ Timothy Snyder
Europeans and Americans wasted time by asking whether an invasion had taken place, whether Ukraine was a country, and whether it had somehow deserved to be invaded. This revealed a capacious vulnerability that Russia soon exploited within the European Union and the United States.
~ Timothy Snyder
Germany's Energiewende, the "energy turn"—which aimed to replace conventional energy with wind and solar. The generous subsidies from the feed-in tariffs speeded renewable deployment, while also leading to the highest residential energy prices in the European Union.
~ Daniel Yergin
Transforming the European Union into a single State with one army, one constitution and one foreign policy is the critical challenge of the age
~ Joschka Fischer
You must never forget that the unification of Germany is more important than the development of the European Union, that the fall of the Soviet Union is more important than the unification of Germany, and that the rise of India and China is more important than the fall of the Soviet Union.
~ Henry Kissinger
The United States has every reason from history and geopolitics to bolster the European Union and prevent its drifting off into a geopolitical vacuum; the United States, if separated from Europe in politics, economics, and defense, would become geopolitically an island off the shores of Eurasia, and Europe itself could turn into an appendage to the reaches of Asia and the Middle East.
~ Henry Kissinger
The Italians, who used to be a great motor-manufacturing power, have been absolutely destroyed by the euro - as was intended by the Germans.
~ Boris Johnson
Ever since David Cameron took it on himself to prise open Pandora's box and call the E.U. referendum, the only thing that's been predictable has been the utter unpredictability of what has followed.
~ Gina Miller
The European Union is not unbreakable; something that is breakable is extremely valuable.
~ Frans Timmermans
Austria can only be strong if we are not just members of the European Union but also actively help to strengthen the European Union.
~ Sebastian Kurz
The Maastricht Treaty. Superseding the Treaty of Rome, the pro-visions of the Maastricht Treaty openly aspired toward a centralized European Superstate: the European Union (EU)—with a common foreign policy, a common military, a common currency, and a common judiciary.
~ Chuck Missler
Let's not underestimate the European Union. You know what united Europe? Values. And that's why I am absolutely sure about the unity of the European Union and its solidarity with Ukraine.
~ Petro Poroshenko
I also believe that we have an extraordinary opportunity for the United States and European Union to lead the world in developing and implementing new and more efficient technologies - smart electrical grids and electrical vehicles.
~ Hillary Clinton
The European Union, the world's largest and most corrupt fascist organisation, has set up its own carbon trading programme and, if nothing else, it is a good example of how carbon trading works.
~ Unknown
A lot of international companies invest in the U.K. as a base for doing business with the rest of the European Union.
~ Tim Harford
We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way.
~ Ibrahim Rugova
I realised that if we were not in the E.U., there were people in the E.U. who were also members of NATO that would veto our joining NATO.
~ Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Brexit is not a viable path for Britain.
~ Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
The United Kingdom has committed the heresy of breaking the chains of the E.U. This is a signal victory for democracy. It is a slap in the face to the European system which was increasingly based on fear, blackmail, and lies.
~ Marine Le Pen