Angela Merkel Quotes

If you wish to have free access to the single market, then you have to accept the fundamental rights as well as obligation that come from it.

There is a perfectly good alternative to the European Union - it is called the European Free Trade Association, founded in 1960. Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein are members. E.F.T.A. stands for friendship and cooperation through free trade.

I believed and hoped that we would be able to secure a deal with Europe which would enable us to amend free movement.

Theresa May has made a decision that we want our economic future to remain close to Europe: it's the biggest single market in the world; it's right on our doorstep.

If the U.K. wants a commercial access treaty to the European market, the British must contribute to the European budget like the Norwegians and the Swiss do. If London doesn't want that, then it must be a total exit.

Our idea is to make the U.K. a privileged partner of the E.U.

The Eurozone allows for the largely unimpeded movement of people, goods, services, and capital across borders. It has also resulted in unprecedented cooperation on crime, security, and finance among its members.

The most difficult part of Brexit will be to figure out the trade regime between the U.K. and the rest of the E.U. because the level of trade integration between the members of the E.U. is the deepest in the world and integrates regulations that govern how products and services are produced and sold within the E.U.

By remaining inside a customs union and the single market in a transitional phase we would be certain that goods and services could continue to flow between the E.U. and the U.K. without tariffs, customs checks or additional red tape.

What I would rather see, what I think would be the best outcome, is a very close relationship between the United Kingdom and the E.U.

If the U.K. wants to leave the E.U., we need to stay in the single market.

Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to keep us there, because we buy from them more than we sell to them to the tune of £40 million per day.

There are lots of jobs and investment in Scotland dependent on our membership of the E.U. single market.

I want completing the single market to be our driving mission. I want us to be at the forefront of transformative trade deals with the US, Japan and India as part of the drive towards global free trade. And I want us to be pushing to exempt Europe's smallest entrepreneurial companies from more EU directives.

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 to be extremely strict on the implementation of Brexit so there is a common approach between member states. We must avoid a sector-by-sector or country-by-country approach, and ask the U.K. to be clear.

If I am prime minister, we will come out of the European Union, and part of that will be control of free movement.

There is no access to the market without budgetary contributions... and without respect for the four freedoms of the E.U.

We would only need a bespoke solution for Northern Ireland if Britain leaves the Single Market.

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

It will be crucial the E.U. and the U.K. maintain the closest economic relationship possible.

The pattern shows that whenever countries try to construct access to the single market... it has required freedom of movement and massive contributions to the E.U. budget, and no role in any decision making processes that frame the rules.

It's difficult to see how the U.K. can be a member of the E.U. if it's not adherent to the principles set out in the convention.

We must be out of the protectionist common external tariff, which mainly protects inefficient E.U. industries at the cost to British consumers.

Turkey has a customs union with the E.U. - it still means there are checks on the border between Turkey and the E.U.