Tariq Ali Quotes

The Netherlands believes in a vigorous Europe with a commission that is independent and robust.

The European Union, ok, right, it has a bureaucracy, right. It's sometimes difficult to deal with but so what? You hire a couple of people like me to work the European Union, and it can be done. It's pretty good.

I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.

The whole project of European Union is one in deep trouble.

The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.

It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.

I have been supporting the European Union, but we are still a work in progress. We have to become more of a United States of Europe. We should talk about electing a president of the E.U., rather than having one selected from the heads of government.

If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization.

For Europe to play a part in the world on the scale of its wealth and its population and its capacities, Europe has to be united in some way, and Europe is not united.

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

'Ever closer union' is one of the totemically controversial phrases in the European Union's Treaties. It seems to give weight to the view that the scheme is designed to end in a single state and that those who agreed the texts have long know this, even if they have been unwilling to admit it to the British people.

The Commission is extremely important. The E.U. without the Commission would not be the European Union.

For me, arguably, the European Parliament is the best-functioning European institution. They are extremely good at law-making; they're extremely good at finding compromise under pressure.

As leader of the Fine Gael Party, I will also use our position in the European People's Party to clearly state our views with our European political partners.

The European Union is not only a great idea, but it's also an idea we must keep working on.

Europe is a community of half a billion people, more than Russia and the United States combined.

The obstacle for us is not Islam, but the bureaucrats in Brussels.

The European Union is here to stay.

I have said I will not work with the parliamentary party in Strasbourg again but of course I will continue to be a member of Ukip.

Having the United Kingdom in the European Union gives us much greater confidence about the strength of the transatlantic union and is part of the cornerstone of institutions built after World War II that has made the world safer and more prosperous.

The European Union Treaty... within a few years will lead to the creation of what the founding fathers of modern Europe dreamed of after the war, the United States of Europe.

The European Union is effectively a union dominated by the German political and economic elite. Its main function is to serve as a nucleus for financial capitalism and to ease the road for that capitalism. The other functions just irritate everyone: it's undemocratic; decisions are not made by parliament; the European Parliament is not sovereign.

I was turned out because I said to Europe no, no, no. That no, no , no has now turned into yes, yes. Two yes's not three because he got the Social Chapter out and he's reserved his position on the single currency.

United States of Europe

European union is our destiny.