Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer Quotes

This much is true: When we created the euro, it wasn't possible to create a political union along with it. People weren't ready for that. But since then, they've grown more willing to go in that direction. It's a process, one that is sometimes laborious and sometimes slow. But it's important to keep the populations involved.

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.

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.

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

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

I think that we must come together progressively, with the British, the Germans, the Spanish, the Italians and with the new members of the European Union, we must make an effort to forge closer links.

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

I believe that Europe without Britain at the heart will be less reform-driven, less open, less international Europe.

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.

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.

Germany is the united heart of an ever increasingly united continent.

German and European unification are two sides of the same coin.

At German unification, we were lucky to get so much help from West Germany. Now, we have the good fortune of being able to help each other in Europe.

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.

We have to make the argument that the only economically sound place to be is within Europe - we have to remember, it's history again, that there are reasons we bound ourselves together as a set of European nations and it all came out of the second world war.

There's going to be a need for a system of cooperation within the continent of Europe including the U.K. that covers both economic and political cooperation.

The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.

There is no real peace in Europe, if the states are reconstituted on a basis of national sovereignty. (…) They must have larger markets. Their prosperity is impossible, unless the States of Europe form themselves in a European Federation.

A great European federative system alone can be favourable to the development of civilisation.

It is always said that Europe is a project of the elite. That's incorrect.

We believe in the fundamental principles of the European economy.

Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity, but it needs to be rethought, refounded.

Thanks to the euro, our pockets will soon hold solid evidence of a European identity. We need to build on this, and make the euro more than a currency and Europe more than a territory... In the next six months, we will talk a lot about political union, and rightly so. Political union is inseparable from economic union. Stronger growth and Euorpean integration are related issues. In both areas we will take concrete steps forward.

We are a European nation - must stay one.

Europe has never existed. One must genuinely create Europe.