Francois Hollande Quotes

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

With every wish to take Europe forward with a German-French nucleus, the proposals must always fit with German interests.

You can't build Europe against anyone.

I am a committed European; a united Europe is Romania's future.

Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in foreign and security policy. We have a leadership problem because we are still 27 different members who have still not decided on how to work with each other based on what we used to call a European constitution.

I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.

Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that - more of a deeper political union.

I am not anti-European.

I think us leaving would have an enormous and bad effect on the rest of the EU. The EU would respond by deepening integration and becoming more of a 'political project'. It would not only be damaging ourselves but also the kind of Europe we want.

To make Europe more effective is a worthwhile objective. To make Europe less important in your calculations is a big mistake.

As much as I believe in the Franco-German partnership, I question the idea of a duopoly. European construction is based on a well-balanced and respectful partnership between France and Germany.

The most important thing is that Europe has to remain united.

I'd say that I'm a pro-European.

I want the European Union to be a success. And I want a relationship between Britain and the EU that keeps us in it.

I completely agree with Helmut Kohl. I am not an advocate of the "United States of Europe," nor am I an integration fanatic.

Germany will continue to play a central - perhaps even a more important - role in the European Union. I think that we will all miss the pragmatic approach of the British, however, particularly in those long nights of negotiation.

My main concern is the political dimension of European integration. This is one of the most important issues of all, as far as I'm concerned. It has to do with our past, with our sensitivity, perhaps even our hypersensitivity in this regard.

I really think in the Commonwealth of Europe you should have Russia. I listed a hundred countries that would be in it and it would then be a really European United Nations.

There is no future for the people of Europe other than in union.

I am going to leave the future of Europe to the Europeans.

Emmanuel Macron wants a stronger Europe, just as the chancellor and I do. I was impressed that the new president climbed onto the stage in front of the Louvre to the sound of the European anthem after his election victory. That was a very powerful symbol. It is very clear: Macron is our ally.

For me, Europe consists of three things: sovereignty, unity and democracy.

I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as British prime minister with a positive vision for the future of the European Union. A future in which Britain wants, and should want, to play a committed and active part.

In the report made on behalf of the C.G.T. we affirmed that the Peace Treaty should, in accordance with the spirit of workers' organizations, lay the first foundations of the United States of Europe.

We need less theoretical debate and more practical application and acknowledgment of what Europe can and does do so that it is brought home to people in a relevant way.