Frans Timmermans Quotes

We have a huge responsibility to make sure that Europe remains a prosperous and peaceful continent.

Without Greece, it is not possible to preserve the integrity of the European phenomenon.

Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number of areas, although recently it has been under strain because of the financial crisis and other challenges.

The 28-member Europe must be simpler, clearer, more efficient, and continue to advance on digital and energy issues.

Building a stable, peaceful, and coherent Europe must include Russia.

World leaders need to approach the problems in the Middle East and northern Africa with imaginative ideas such as those that created the E.U.

I will do everything I can to renew a new Rome-Berlin axis.

Countries themselves need to do everything possible to remain in the euro zone.

Two decisions have damaged the stability both of the euro and of Europe: the premature admission of Greece to the euro area and the breach and subsequent weakening of the stability and growth pact.

The Arabs are looking forward to developing their region, which the long years of war had prevented from finding its true place in today's world, in an atmosphere of democracy, pluralism, and prosperity.

France has always succeeded because it is part of the world.

There really is a sense of internationalism in the heartland.

We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.

Europe has to be about more than market, goods, and money.

The role that I played in Ukraine ended up resulting in Ukraine becoming part of the European community.

Societies are being interconnected and we have to adjust to that fact.

Europe can be saved.

Public confidence in, and support for, the euro - and, indeed, the European Union - will ultimately be determined by how well we deliver on growth and jobs rather than on institutional wrangling and complex legal or technical negotiations.

In the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century, regionalism was seen as a building block of globalisation.

No one can be in any doubt that Britain is becoming more like Europe, though few in an increasingly economically illiterate media seem to realise it.

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.

We should do everything we can to demonstrate to the U.K. the attractiveness of the E.U.

The question is whether a confident Europe will be a rival for North America - or whether they will work together and become a more unified bloc.

We must strengthen everything that defines Denmark. I look forward to working with all of you here in Parliament. We must live up to the hopes we have generated: a safer, more just and greener Denmark.

The ASEAN is located at the center of the Indo-Pacific region and is critical for achieving a Free and Open Indo-Pacific.