Jean-Claude Juncker Quotes

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

I have spent more time thinking about European issues than even I can imagine - so many years thinking about Britain and the way our influence around the world was amplified through the European Union.

We British play an important role in Europe, even if we have a traditional and historical ambivalence towards the continent.

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 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.

Europe needs an engine, and the Franco-German motor has provided that when the two nations have converged on important topics during critical periods. But that partnership shouldn't be a directorate for other EU members.

To be influential in tomorrow's world, to defend our values and our development model, France needs Europe and Europe needs France.

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

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

We believe that from both a German and a Polish perspective, it is desirable for Great Britain to remain in the European Union.

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.

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

I was never binary remain or leave. I was very much of the sentiment, and still am, that it was about remain, reform and review. The U.K. actually has a very powerful place in Europe.

Decisions can only be reached in Europe if France and Germany agree.

At the time of German Reunification, it was no secret that Germany would soon become the strongest political entity in the European Union. And that has happened.

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.

Throughout the years following World War II and until the formation of the European Economic Community in 1958, I was very active as a national or international rapporteur at many of the international conferences aiming to establish an European community.

I would like a UK fully engaged in Europe, but I can't decide in place of the British. I see that for the moment they want to be more in retreat.

It is a mystery why any Americans would support the concept of the EU.

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

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

Yes, Jean Monnet was the father of the concept of a United States of Europe and his efforts more than those of any other single man helped change the thinking of European leaders.

I am not a British isolationist. I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too.

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.