Leo Varadkar Quotes

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.

Globilization is here to stay.

Trade liberalization can be contagious, and the opening of markets regionally can spark progress multilaterally as well.

I am a very big proponent of opening the borders with India. Most of our trade is done through unofficial channels. Why not open the trade?

Specifically, the U.S. holds strength. Its own context makes it a very competitive country, but I believe that if we recognize how interdependent the U.S. with its neighbors from the North and the South, we are part of NAFTA, a trade agreement.

Globalization is a great thing, but it needs a legal framework in which to blossom.

The only way to have several currencies from divergent nations lumped together is if they are culturally close, such as Germany, the Netherlands and Austria. If they aren't, it simply can't continue to work.

Our view is that economic isolationism is the wrong way to go. Vibrant, successful growing economies that advance the interests of their citizens engage the global economy. And, we're committed to engaging the global economy.

What we should be doing in the EU as a whole is more economic integration in the single market, rather than less.

Peace in Europe can only come through union in one economic system. The United States of Europe are overdue.

Globalization

For the first time in history, a single worldwide economic system has come into being.

I know something about trade agreements. I was proud to help President Clinton pass the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993 and create what is still the world's largest free-trade area, linking 426 million people and more than $12 trillion of goods and services.

I have suggested that Brazilian enterprises invest in Uruguay and Paraguay. These are small economies, so some things can be produced in these countries that will give them greater and more equitable involvement in the Mercosur game.

We were able to sign free trade agreement with Europe at a time when people tend to be closing off.

The most difficult part of Brexit will be to figure out the trade regime between the U.K. and the rest of the E.U. because the level of trade integration between the members of the E.U. is the deepest in the world and integrates regulations that govern how products and services are produced and sold within the E.U.

Trump has said he will dismantle the North American Free Trade Agreement. This would be hugely harmful for Canada and the U.S. and for integration in the region.

Creating a structure for mutual prosperity requires lowering regional and transnational barriers to facilitate the flow of goods and promote people-to-people interactions.

I think it is important that we should be on the side of keeping borders open with respect to trade and movement of factors of production.

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.

We hope that through these trade arrangements, through collaboration in training, in manpower development, and what have you, ASEAN in, say, ten years' time, will be a very different ASEAN.

The E.U. is the world's fastest growing democratic body.

Our trade opens to all the world.

There is an opportunity to consolidate the North American region as a more competitive region, a more productive region that will be more competitive than other blocs that have integrated in the rest of the world.

The North American Free Trade Agreement marked a fundamental change in the global trade scheme.