John Redwood Quotes

United States of Europe

Europe is and will be a Union of States.

It is always said that Europe is a project of the elite. That's incorrect.

Continent-wide nations require continent-wide leaders whenever they are in crisis. The 'idea of Europe,' much like the 'idea of India' was the construction of such continental leaders.

You can't deepen the European Union against the wishes of the European countries.

If Turkey become a member of the EU, of course Turks would lose a part of this identity, just as Europe would lose a part of its own. It would also be a different Europe then. Accepting Turkey into the EU is an ambitious political endeavor of historical proportions. Europe would become a strong, multi-religious unit.

Russia itself is a European country, and not just because our major political and economic centres are in Europe, but because Russian culture is primarily European culture.

It [the Euro] is a decisive step towards ever closer political and institutional union in Europe. Above all, it is political.

The Federated Republic of Europe-the United States of Europe-that is what must be. National autonomy no longer suffices. Economic evolution demands the abolition of national frontiers. If Europe is to remain split into national groups, then Imperialism will recommence its work. Only a Federated Republic of Europe can give peace to the world.

You're thinking of Eurpoe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

If the euro becomes a factor promoting Europe's drifting apart, then the foundation of the European project is destroyed.

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.

The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.

Without Britain, Europe would remain only a torso.

As Tony Blair has made clear, our fundamental challenge is how to make Europe work better.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

Limitless enlargement of Europe means the death of political Europe.

The glue that binds the EU together is not a shared identity but shared projects.

In the light of these treaties we are Europeans only.

We must build a kind of United States of Europe.

We Europeans will always have two fatherlands. One is Europe, and the other is our own country. It is unified in its diversity—this Europe.

I am strictly against a European superstate.

The European Union is robbing us of our national identities, our nation states.

We don't want a European super state.

But the European Union does not have a concept of national identity. It was set up to abolish that idea, not to abolish German national identity because that was trying to save itself.