Peer Steinbruck Quotes

I am not a British isolationist. I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too.

To be influential in tomorrow's world, to defend our values and our development model, France needs Europe and Europe needs France.

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.

Throughout the years following World War II and until the formation of the European Economic Community in 1958, I was very active as a national or international rapporteur at many of the international conferences aiming to establish an European community.

The decisive factor for the future of Europe - and before all things, for the 'restoration' of Europe - will be whether political thought and national feelings are influenced by the reality of internationalism.

I do not separate France from Europe.

Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.

We all need Europe, not just those of us in Europe. And we Germans need Europe more than the others. Germany is the country with the longest border, the most neighbours, and is, by population and economic strength, the number one in Europe.

The most important thing is that Europe has to remain united.

During the 20th century, the greatest danger to European stability was Germany's sense of its special destiny. During the 21st century, the greatest danger to European stability is Germany's reluctance to accept its special destiny.

I'm a big believer in Europe.

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.

You can't build Europe against anyone.

China's reform and opening-up programme and Europe's integration process have both contributed significantly to global peace, development, and prosperity. China firmly supports the integration of Europe and regards the E.U. as a strategic partner that deserves our confidence.

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

It is a mystery why any Americans would support the concept of the EU.

Europe has united, China is growing speedily and Russia possesses immense power in terms of fuel resources. The US administration cannot do anything about it.

Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in foreign and security policy. We have a leadership problem because we are still 27 different members who have still not decided on how to work with each other based on what we used to call a European constitution.

Europe needs an engine, and the Franco-German motor has provided that when the two nations have converged on important topics during critical periods. But that partnership shouldn't be a directorate for other EU members.

In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together.

I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government.

Is Europe going to be breaking? I don't think so. I think the euro will stay. I think at the end of the day Europeans will find the solutions in order to hold Europe together.

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.

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.