Paul Hoffman Quotes

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

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

The European Union is here to stay.

The E.U. is more than just a trade organization or a common market; it is a guarantee of democracy, freedom, justice, and human rights. Nations cannot stay in the E.U. if they do not respect these guarantees.

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.

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Free Movement of labor is the sine qua non of the EU,

The heart of the matter is that the very nature of the European Union, and of this country's relationship with it, has fundamentally changed after the coming into being of the European monetary union and the creation of the eurozone, of which - quite rightly - we are not a part.

Our problem as a country is that most of us do not want to join the euro, and we wish to stay aloof from the common frontiers of the free-travel Schengen area. This makes our relationship with the E.U. fraught with tension and trouble.

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

I see us very much at the heart of Europe. We are founding members of the single market; we are founding members of the euro.

I think the E.U. means different things to different countries. In the U.K., traditionally, if you know anything about the U.K.'s history and its relationship with the E.U., it is about the common market; it's about being part of something that is good for jobs and growth.

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

The European Union is not only a great idea, but it's also an idea we must keep working on.

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.

The E.U. is the world's fastest growing democratic body.

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.

Let us not forget that the European Community started as a project for peace after the terrible Second World War. And today people take for granted the freedom to travel, to study, to work abroad. And the citizens of one country have almost exactly the same rights as another country.

The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.

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.

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.

It is in my heart that I believe most strongly that our future is within a reformed E.U. - not least because we now live in a global marketplace.

To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries.

The designs of the paper euros, introduced in 2002, proclaim a utopian aspiration. Gone are the colorful bills of particular nations, featuring pictures of national heroes of statecraft, culture and the arts, pictures celebrating unique national narratives. With the euro, 16 nations have said goodbye to all that.

Economic necessity will override patriotism and cause the nations of Western Europe to band together--if not under a single government, then certainly in a close politico-economic alliance