Leo Varadkar Quotes

United States of Europe

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

The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.

In order to consolidate the euro we need to harmonise our economic, fiscal and social policies, hence we are going toward greater integration.

There are achievements of European integration that cannot be haggled over: for example the principle of free movement and the principle of non-discrimination.

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

There is a proposal to divide the currency zone into a north and a south euro. There is also the idea of setting up a core monetary union in the middle of Europe. I disapprove of these debates. Instead, we should devote all of our efforts to supplementing the monetary union with a political union.

The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.

I'm a great supporter of the European Union. I didn't support entry to the Euro, not because I'm against it in principle but because I didn't think it was economically right for Britain. But that doesn't make me any less pro-European.

The European Union ranks among the most extraordinary political achievement of modern times. It has abolished tariffs, established a common currency, and spread peace and prosperity to democracies across Europe.

If people do not believe in Europe and in the euro area, it must be dismantled.

We have to be serious and consistent if we believe the European Union makes sense. I believe it makes sense.

I'm a pessimist about the euro, but not about Europe. So the southern periphery, Spain, Italy, Greece, leave - Italy might be the first to go - and the rest stay. That will work just fine. But unless they want to give up democracy, I don't see greater fiscal union as the answer.

The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation.

If the euro becomes a factor promoting Europe's drifting apart, then the foundation of the European project is destroyed.

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

The euro is a vital issue for Germany. There is no other country that derives as much benefit from the common domestic market and the monetary union as Germany.

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 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.

It's political glue inside Europe to keep it together - the euro is the best thing going for it since the creation of the common market.

We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization.

A country like France now does two-thirds of its trade within the euro zone.

It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.

The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a political rather than a merely geographic expression.

Peace in Europe can only come through union in one economic system. The United States of Europe are overdue.