Charles Michel Quotes

International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.

It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation-states, however powerful. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the imperatives of global environmental cooperation.

I do believe that the international community cannot act based on a rivalries or things of that sort.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

I am not a British isolationist. I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too.

We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.

Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation.

The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.

Co-operation between governments still plays an important role and will remain indispensable.

The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient.

America cannot meet this century's challenges alone; the world cannot meet them without America.

I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.

What we need is a common goal for more Europe.

The majority of decisions in Europe are done by unanimity. That's why it is important to be to have good relations with all parts.

For all its shortcomings, European co-operation and integration has created an understanding of shared destiny. We no longer point guns at each other; we fight it out at a conference table. And we will continue to do so when the U.K. is no longer a member state but, I hope, still a friend.

The U.N. cannot be run by the 'I.' It only works by the 'We.'

For future geopolitical stability and global prosperity, we need to build a culture of greater trust and understanding between China, America and the rest of the world.

International politics is no longer a zero-sum game but a multi-dimensional arena where cooperation and competition often occur simultaneously. Gone is the age of blood feuds. World leaders are expected to lead in turning threats into opportunities.

There are nearly 200 countries and a population of over 6 billion in today's world. International affairs should be addressed by all countries through consultations rather than monopolised by a few powers.

I have concluded that the U.N. can do a few things well.

Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.

The nations of Europe constitute a federative league, a commonwealth of nations which, though it has no central head, is so intimate and elaborate as to subject the action, and sometimes even the internal affairs, of each to surveillance and intervention on the part of all the others.

In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together.