Charles Michel Quotes

Leaving the E.U. would mean the 'Guernseyfication' of the U.K., which would then be a little country on the world scale. It would isolate itself and become a trading post and arbitration place at Europe's border.

Calling into question the Touquet deal on the pretext that Britain has voted for Brexit and will have to start negotiations to leave the union doesn't make sense.

The entire debate around a 'No Deal' Brexit assigns a vastly overstated importance to the role of government in daily life.

The government must be open enough to provide robust impact assessments of leaving the single market or the customs union, including region-by-region and sector-by-sector analysis.

What's important is that we do this in the right timescale to get the right deal for the U.K. We shouldn't invoke Article 50 immediately.

I can't foretell the future, but I don't believe that the act of leaving the European Union would make our economic position worse; I think it would make it better.

If you look at it ideologically, I would say Brexit is not something that probably is good for the world.

We must stand up for the principle of parliamentary democracy and not allow the government's failure in the Brexit process to be a licence for the U.K. to crash out of the E.U. without an agreement.

Every day we let this Brexit mess go on means less money being invested in the UK, fewer jobs being created and less tax revenue to pay for our public services.

We are leaving the E.U. But we have no idea where we are going.

There is no form of Brexit that will be good for our country but a no-deal Brexit will be the most catastrophic of them all.

The U.K. matters with or without being a member of the E.U.

The nature of the final Brexit deal really matters. It is, as I have said before, the battle of our times.

Failure to pass TPP sends a big signal. The United States is backing off, backing away. That will create a huge void here.

The 'in' campaign will attempt to scare people into believing that if the U.K. were to leave, investment and jobs would move abroad. They are as wrong about that now as they were when they warned that this would happen if we did not sign up to the Euro.

A U.K. vote to exit the European Union could have significant economic repercussions.

The words are frightening - how you're going to build a wall, how you're going to have Mexico pay for it. What does this mean?

However painful or regrettable Brexit may be, it will not stop the E.U. as it moves to the future; we need to move forward.

International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

In retrospect, the populist panic may have been overblown. Regarding Brexit, for example, the shock exaggerated its meaning. Because it was so unexpected, it became a sensation.

We cannot afford to let Brexit slip away - the political price, the reputational damage to the country is too great.

The Brexit decision is a decision we see very negatively. But, of course, it has been taken by the British people, so now we have to find a way to deal with it, and from our point of view, it is important to avoid a hard Brexit.

The humiliating idea that we just slide from the top E.U. table to third country is unthinkable.

Brexit stops Britain from being Great Britain.

One thing we can be sure of is that Brexit will leave its mark on the E.U.