Quotes About European Union

Nationalism is war. - in arguing to strengthen the federal powers of the European Union

I want the Eurobond, a 20 per cent devalued euro for southern European countries, protecting our products against those arriving from abroad, and a revision of the 3 per cent deficit budgetary rule.

Greece, whose prior government had hired Goldman Sachs to help it massage its national accounts and conceal its budget deficits from the European Union, could no longer pay its $300 billion in government debt.

After Greece, Portugal, rural Spain, southern Italy, and the former Communist Länder of Germany, the UK in 2000 was the largest beneficiary of European Union structural funds—which is a way of saying that parts of Britain were among the most deprived regions of the EU.

People in Scotland want to have Scotland in the UK and the UK in the EU, and that's what the Liberal Democrats are arguing for.

In Greece, refugees are being waved through to the heart of Europe. That is simply unacceptable in the long run. The European Union cannot act like a human trafficker.

The treaties of the European Union say that, once a country has decided to leave, then they are excluded from the treaty after two years, unless there is unanimous agreement to extend that period.

I am, 'Guardian' readers keep telling me, a xenophobe. Never mind that I speak French and Spanish, that I love Europe, that I've lived a high proportion of my life abroad. The fact that I oppose the political amalgamation of the European Union's states is ipso facto proof that I dislike foreigners.

En resumen, Europa es una clase curiosa de unión, una confederación que, sin siquiera haber llegado a serlo, fantasea con convertirse en una federación. Tiene un ejecutivo, un parlamento, una cámara alta, un tribunal de justicia, un banco central, una moneda común, una bandera y un himno. Pero solo tiene un presupuesto común diminuto y lo justo para un ejército común. Muchas

La UE está muy poblada pero envejece. Su economía es grande pero lenta. Su productividad no es mala, pero está viciada por el ocio excesivo. Es

La presente Constitución, que nace de la voluntad de los pueblos y los estados de Europa de construir un futuro común, crea la Unión Europea, a la que los estados miembros confieren competencias para alcanzar sus objetivos comunes. La Unión coordinará las políticas de los estados miembros encaminadas a lograr dichos objetivos y ejercerá, de modo comunitario, las competencias que estos le transfieran.»

So much of the agenda behind Brexit has been murky.

There wasn't a Scottish nationalist MP elected at any general election when we were outside the E.U.

Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations.

It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved.

The European Union is an institution that is in the interest of big business, not the European people. So it's understandable that some people thought we should leave.

Britain has always told the world that being British is about the humanity, compassion and moral fortitude that we have. All great things that we are supposed to have spread across the world. A leave vote now says that we don't really care about anyone else, we don't care what happens to the European Union.

We have, in the E.U., a market rigged in favour of the rich and stacked against the poor, and I think that's wrong.

The ability to control our borders stands at the heart of the debate on whether or not Britain should leave the European Union.

Fourth, on November 11, 2018, President Trump attended the Paris Peace Forum to observe the hundredth anniversary of the end of World War I. French President Macron called nationalism (putting America first) treason. He defended the United Nations and the European Union, saying patriotism means putting world government first.

French President Macron called nationalism (putting America first) treason. He defended the United Nations and the European Union, saying patriotism means putting world government first.

the European Union is like a giant pension fund for defunct politicians, who either cannot get elected in their own countries or are tired of the struggle to do so. It is a way for politicians to remain important and powerful, at the center of a web of patronage, after their defeat or loss of willingness to expose themselves to the rigors of the electoral process.

Labour is fundamentally a Remain party but it is in our interests to negotiate as good a deal as possible.

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.