John Redwood Quotes

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

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

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.

I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.

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

The Euro was a terrible mistake, one that is very difficult to unmake.

France no longer has any borders because of the E.U.

I personally hope and wish that Britain will stay part and parcel of the European Union.

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.

I believed and hoped that we would be able to secure a deal with Europe which would enable us to amend free movement.

Britain is less European-minded than Greece.

You need a debate and a vote on the principles: Do you want more Europe or less Europe? Do you believe we are more efficient with defense and security with Europe, or not? Do you believe we are more efficient for our companies with or without Europe? Those are the questions we have to discuss and push our people to vote on it.

No one wants to kill Schengen, but if it is only a fairweather system, then it cannot survive.

While it was an experiment to bring them together, nothing has divided Europe as much as the euro.

Europe is one thing. The euro is something else.

Whatever happens with Brexit, what I am absolutely convinced will not happen is that free movement of individuals, free movement of people, will not change, North and South without passports.

I think there are going to be more countries joining the euro.

The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.

Some countries that are close to Europe that already hold Deutschemarks, clearly would automatically hold euros, those are countries in Eastern Europe mainly, a few countries in Africa.

Europe is a collection of free countries.

I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision.

We will do whatever we could do to keep Greece inside the euro and inside Europe.

Europe unified its monetary policy through the euro before it unified politically, therefore sustaining member countries' abilities to pursue the kind of independent fiscal policies that can strain a joint currency.

By all means, let's have free trade and no trade barriers and a common market. But where did it all suddenly become about our own economic and political destiny being surrendered to Brussels with agendas that arguably have very little to do with the interests of the British people and British voters?

I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.