Timothy Garton Ash Quotes

The E.U. should want Turkey to be part of it.

We have to ask ourselves, is it really right that the E.U. should just continue to expand, conferring upon all new member states all the rights of membership?

The E.U. is the world's fastest growing democratic body.

Serbia stands firmly on the EU path.

Romania strongly supports Turkey's E.U. accession.

A new state, if it wants to join the European Union, has to apply to become a member of the European Union like any state.

We would like Serbia to become a member of the European Union as quickly as possible.

I think of the world as geographical regions, and it excites me to think about the opportunity that Europe can have if we consider it to be the 500-million-people region that it is.

It is clear that I have to change the European dynamics to create a better place for Italians, French, Austrians, and Spaniards.

This much is true: When we created the euro, it wasn't possible to create a political union along with it. People weren't ready for that. But since then, they've grown more willing to go in that direction. It's a process, one that is sometimes laborious and sometimes slow. But it's important to keep the populations involved.

I don't want a Europe that is just a free-trade area attached to NATO. Even less do I want a Europe where it's everyone against everyone, and social and fiscal dumping replaces solidarity.

Europe started out with six countries; three small countries and three large countries.

I believe something very deeply. That Britain's national interest is best served in a flexible, adaptable and open European Union and that such a European Union is best with Britain in it.

Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

Our participation in the single market, and our ability to help set its rules is the principal reason for our membership of the EU. So it is a vital interest for us to protect the integrity and fairness of the single market for all its members.

The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.

Croatia did not want Europe to be divided as to the start of Croatia's EU entry talks.

People feel that the EU is heading in a direction that they never signed up to. They resent the interference in our national life by what they see as unnecessary rules and regulation. And they wonder what the point of it all is. Put simply, many ask 'why can't we just have what we voted to join - a common market?'

We favor the economic unification of Germany. If complete unification cannot be secured, we shall do everything in our power to secure the maximum possible unification.

Peace in Europe can only come through union in one economic system. The United States of Europe are overdue.

Among peoples who are geographically grouped together like the peoples of Europe there must exist a sort of federal link.

The creation of a United States of Europe is a necessity if one considers the economic and technical situation.

In Western Europe there are now only small countries—those that know it and those that don't know it yet.

Turkey is not right for the EU. Islam is too aggressive a religion.

European union is our destiny.