Lakshmi Mittal Quotes

In Europe … nationalism is nothing more than a mania.

Are we going to permit uncontrolled nationalism to dominate civilized Europe…?

Europe is a collection of free countries.

China protects the Chinese, America protects the Americans, I don't see why Europe should not protect the Europeans.

Limitless enlargement of Europe means the death of political Europe.

This is nothing less than a national tragedy…. It is time to consider these refugees arriving from Poland and elsewhere purely on their merits as migrants and in an unsentimental light. In the last 50 years these people have swarmed all over Europe, coming principally from Armenia, Russia and the Balkans. We should remember that they are European neither by race, standards, nor culture. They are, in fact, an Eastern people. In 2000 years no one but Britain has been successfully able to absorb them, and for the most part they owe loyalty and allegiance to none.

In the light of these treaties we are Europeans only.

I am neither German or French but European.

European right-wing parties are in fact surprisingly fragmented, disagreeing over almost everything except ultranationalist sentiments and xenophobic opposition to non-European immigrants.

We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.

Europe is my continent, not my country

I notice with a certain sense of regret that far too many Europeans are returning to a regional and national mindset.

I think that the Brexit negotiations have to be a big thing that determines the democratic fight-back and galvanizes democratic Europe again against this rising tide of nationalism.

It would be a mistake to overstate the similarities between the Brexit vote and Trump's win - but there are common themes, not least in the rallying cries that the winning campaigns used. They focused on a supposed economic threat posed by outsiders, as immigrants or as trade partners. This fuelling of anxieties underpinned a narrative centered on the need to "regain control," whether of borders or of economic forces.

Making America great again, as if to keep the world out. The world and all its fresh ideas and everything that's new and exhilarating and the wind of change that should blow through the world - block it out, wall ourselves up. That for me goes with a small vocabulary. A narrow, confining vocabulary.

The mishandling of the migration question in Europe has certainly created a very fertile ground for protest parties.

I've become a lot more politicised because of Brexit.

President Donald Trump's policies are not global but inward-looking.

I'd say that I'm a pro-European.

The argument that won the Brexit campaign is the one that said take back control... which is another way of saying we want to control our destinies again. This is an existential issue for the whole of Europe, not just for the U.K., because this sentiment is not limited to the United Kingdom.

The more Trump emphasises America First, the more it turns into America Alone.

They get the faceless bureaucrats in Brussels and Strasbourg who have ruled and told the Brits how to live and making promises for them that their lives would get better and talking about a future based on globalism versus family and individual and local community. That's what Brexit was all about.

I'm a big believer in Europe.

On immigration, Europe is in danger of displaying the worst of itself: selfishness, haphazard decision-making and rows between member states.

The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.