Anibal Cavaco Silva Quotes

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.

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.

This is what the European Union is all about. A strong market with a strong currency.

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.

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

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.

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

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

United States of Europe

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.

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

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

We believe in the fundamental principles of the European economy.

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. is the world's fastest growing democratic body.

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

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

If you put all the European countries together, we are the biggest economy in the world.

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.

Firstly, people take for granted that the E.U. has created the biggest economic space in the world.

If there was to be a new Europe, there not only had to be a common market, but also great mobility in labor.

What we should be doing in the EU as a whole is more economic integration in the single market, rather than less.

Germany is the biggest economy of Europe and we need Germany on board for the economic reforms of Europe, including, of course, the deepening of the internal market, resisting protectionism, and supporting further economic policy coordination.

European union is our destiny.