Jean-Claude Juncker Quotes

In the light of these treaties we are Europeans only.

We Europeans will always have two fatherlands. One is Europe, and the other is our own country. It is unified in its diversity—this Europe.

If there's no future for Jews in Europe, there's no future for Europe.

I admire Chancellor Merkel for her leadership qualities, but she is leading Europe in the wrong direction.

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

The euro will raise the citizens' awareness of their belonging to one Europe more than any other integration step to date.

Our task is nothing less than the creation of a new constitutional order for a new united Europe.

I like this idea of the re-foundation of the European Union, maybe it can be done, because Europe - I do not say is unique, but it has a force, a culture, a history that cannot be wasted, and we must do everything so that the European Union has the strength and also the inspiration to make it go forward.

How can we still speak of the salvation and reformation of Europe, when we have to ask Europe's destroyer for help?

Europe lacks leadership and a sense of mission and too many people don't feel a part of it.

I'm not prepared to have someone tell me there is only one view of what Europe is. Europe isn't owned by any of them, Europe is owned by all of us.

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

The future will belong to the Germans... ...when we build the House of Europe. In the next two years, we will make the process of European integration irreversible. This is a really big battle but it is worth the fight.

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 must go back to teach Europeans to love Europe.

Europe has never existed. One must genuinely create Europe.

Sometimes I feel I have more faith in European ideals than some of my British or French friends. For them, it's a financial burden. For me, Europe is primarily about values, about fundamental rights, freedom, women's rights.

Europe is my continent, not my country

It's easy to forget how central the French people are in everything we mean when we say Europe.

I'm of the opinion that Angela Merkel is a responsible politician, a politician who has a sense of responsibility for Europe and not only for Germany or for the - her political party.

Nothing would be better today if Europe were divided or smaller. Today we have to say loud and clear that the crises, which have affected Europe cannot serve as a pretext for its disintegration. A mini-Europe would be the worst response to the maxi problems we have to face.

The key question for the future of Europe is whether these faiths will live together in peace or whether they will tear Europe apart.

I think that the Brexit negotiations have to be a big thing that determines the democratic fight-back and galvanizes democratic Europe again against this rising tide of nationalism.

Europe is a state with several provinces

Let us return to our eagle's nest in the Himalayas. It is waiting for us, for it is ours, eaglets of Europe, we need not renounce any part of our real nature...whence we formerly took our flight.