Emmanuel Macron Quotes

Integration is the most important asset Europe has, and the key component to European integration is the euro.

To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries.

This is what the European Union is all about. A strong market with a strong currency.

I don't want to leave euro or leave the European Union.

Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.

After choosing monetary union, further political union and workable governance in Europe was always going to be necessary.

The euro zone must strike for a better governance structure, and there is no alternative to that. Euro zone countries must either develop an exit mechanism for troubled members, or it should embrace a closer political union: an effective governance structure that is capable of enforcing rules.

The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.

In order to consolidate the euro we need to harmonise our economic, fiscal and social policies, hence we are going toward greater integration.

Germany is the biggest economy of Europe and we need Germany on board for the economic reforms of Europe, including, of course, the deepening of the internal market, resisting protectionism, and supporting further economic policy coordination.

Germany has always stood for an E.U. of the 27 countries. But in light of Britain's continued resistance to further integration steps, as we saw with the fiscal pact, there are limits to my optimism in this regard. It's quite possible that we will have to create the new institutions for the euro zone first.

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

If there is no real European federation and if Germany is restored as a strong and independent country, we must expect another attempt at German domination…. The only reasonably hopeful possibility for avoiding … this is some form of federation in Western and Central Europe.

Economic necessity will override patriotism and cause the nations of Western Europe to band together--if not under a single government, then certainly in a close politico-economic alliance

There are achievements of European integration that cannot be haggled over: for example the principle of free movement and the principle of non-discrimination.

We have the eurozone. Could we accept to be cleared, regulated, and de facto have inflows and outflows from a country that has decided to leave the E.U.? For me, definitely not.

The heart of the matter is that the very nature of the European Union, and of this country's relationship with it, has fundamentally changed after the coming into being of the European monetary union and the creation of the eurozone, of which - quite rightly - we are not a part.

A country outside the euro zone cannot have a veto over countries in the euro zone.

I see us very much at the heart of Europe. We are founding members of the single market; we are founding members of the euro.

As the Eurozone takes steps towards closer fiscal and economic integration, and as the E.U. continues to develop, we need to be absolutely clear when it is most appropriate to take decisions at the national or local level, closer to the people affected, and in other cases when it is best to take action at the E.U. or global level.

European centralism, European statism, the communitization of sovereign debt, a Europeanization of social systems and of the minimum wage would be the wrong way.

I'm a pessimist about the euro, but not about Europe. So the southern periphery, Spain, Italy, Greece, leave - Italy might be the first to go - and the rest stay. That will work just fine. But unless they want to give up democracy, I don't see greater fiscal union as the answer.

The countries of Europe are too small to guarantee their peoples the necessary prosperity and social development. The European states must constitute themselves into a federation.

The European Union arose on an economic foundation, and it turns out that even this is not a solid base. Cultural identity has been neglected.

The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.