Wolfgang Schauble Quotes

Within the E.U., in a wider context, people are increasingly recognising the need to prevent the abuse of free movement.

The issue of migration has played a key role in all of our member states, wherever we are. Only we, as a European Union, can convince our citizens that we do have an answer to this - not deny migration, not pretend you can solve it by building fences and walls, not pretending we can solve it by letting everybody in.

What is the issue that has brought the European Union to the brink? The issue of migration.

Before we kill Schengen, we have to make Dublin work.

We need to fight to prove to people that it is possible to form an E.U. migration policy that is in line with the Hungarian national interest.

As responsible politicians, you have to manage migration.

We can't deter people fleeing for their lives. They will come. The choice we have is how well we manage their arrival, and how humanely.

In order to be able to reduce migration we need to be outside the European Union.

Regarding the visa-free regime, it has undoubtedly become a problem for the European Union, above all in terms of its capacity to reach agreements.

We need a human presence at the border and a humane presence at the border.

Immigration has always been a concept that inflames passions.

The Netherlands is not an immigration country. The annual stream of tens of thousands of newcomers, who largely end up as illegal aliens, must stop.

Migration is as natural as breathing, as eating, as sleeping. It is part of life, part of nature. So we have to find a way of establishing a proper kind of scenario for modern migration to exist. And when I say 'we,' I mean the world. We need to find ways of making that migration not forced.

I believe that if we don't offer legal ways of emigrating to Europe and immigrating within Europe, we will be lost. If those who come - who are, generally speaking, the poor and needy - are no longer able to enter the house of Europe through the front door, they'll keep making their way in through the back windows.

I do not have the slightest bit of confidence in the European Union to protect the borders of the European Union.

The influx of migrants must be stopped.

While much attention was focused on Germany during the 2015 refugee crisis, in which more than a million migrants from the Middle East and Africa entered the continent at the behest of Angela Merkel, the country that admitted the most migrants per capita was Sweden.

Schengen cannot survive without the most dramatic reform, and the external borders of Europe must be rapidly strengthened.

Soros wants to fill Italy and Europe with migrants.

We apply the catechism by opening Italy's doors to women and children who come here legally on aeroplanes, but no more men on rubber dinghies. We will help them grow up and work in their own countries. Let's spend in Africa the money that needs to be spent.

If Europe's outer border is not blocked off, it makes no sense to speak of quotas.

I ask our European partners for a truly European migration management. The burden of landings cannot weigh only on the countries of arrival.

I think people are justifiably fed up of hearing migration talked about at the E.U. level but not seeing anything happen in practice.

Every country in the E.U. should make a personnel and a financial contribution in that area. We shouldn't leave alone countries like Italy and Greece that have external borders; rather, we must make the external borders safe together.

The catechism says rich nations should welcome strangers within the limits of the possible. In Italy, we have reached the limits of the possible.