Martin Schulz Quotes

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

It was in the 20th century that national sovereignty really ruled the roost, and the E.U. was formed to cure that.

The decisive factor for the future of Europe - and before all things, for the 'restoration' of Europe - will be whether political thought and national feelings are influenced by the reality of internationalism.

The EU represents a highly developed system for mutual interference in each other’s domestic affairs right down to beer and sausages.

Western Europe has been redefining the nation state since 1945 when it formed the European Union following World War II.

It's not for Germany to decide for the rest of Europe.

I think that it is becoming more and more clear that the European Union is an indispensable partner in some fields.

Continent-wide nations require continent-wide leaders whenever they are in crisis. The 'idea of Europe,' much like the 'idea of India' was the construction of such continental leaders.

Poland is smaller than France or Germany, for example. What would a common foreign policy look like? Would the trip I took to Kiev last week require a detour through Brussels in the future? Would it require approval from Brussels? While the West, for its part, doesn't think twice about other countries when it comes to its projects?

The Eurasian union is a project meant to preserve the identities of nations and the historic Eurasian community in the new century, in a new world.

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.

It is characteristic that this should take place just when it is becoming more and more clear to all who think about the matter, that technically and economically we have left the territorial state behind us.

I've always made it clear that I do not believe that global government is either necessary or feasible.

I believe that in Europe, we have a collective leadership.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

The EU Constitution sets a path towards the elimination of nation states and the emergence of a European state in the strictest sense of the word. I'm definitely opposed to it… The EU isn't a loving family of European nations where everyone altruistically cares for everyone else. Various interests clash on various issues, and all kinds of coalitions are struck to push through specific solutions

The foreign policy of Czechoslovakia must be first of all a Czechoslovak, then a European, and then a world policy.

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

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.

The EU aspired to transcend nation-states, but its fatal flaw has been its consistent failure to recognize the persistence of national differences and the importance of addressing threats on its frontiers. One consequence of this oversight has been the rise of political parties that aim to restore national autonomy, often by appealing to far-right, populist, and sometimes xenophobic sentiments

The Nation is ceasing to be the leading form off the world’s structure; organizations transcending national boundaries are becoming more and more numerous and effective.

I do not want Britain to turn its back on Europe or the rest of the world.

Europe must act quickly where it's needed and must, once and for all, let member states handle what is their exclusive domain.

The European Union is robbing us of our national identities, our nation states.

Obama represents one-world government, a.k.a. Neocolonialism. Presidents don't change anything locally - they only deal with foreign policy.