Federica Mogherini Quotes

Integration is the most important asset Europe has, and the key component to European integration is the euro.

European union is our destiny.

I see us very much at the heart of Europe. We are founding members of the single market; we are founding members of the euro.

The European Union is not only a great idea, but it's also an idea we must keep working on.

Whatever the details of union may be, there's no doubt we need more policy coordination in Europe.

The creation of a United States of Europe is a necessity if one considers the economic and technical situation.

United States of Europe

We should believe in the strength and vitality of the values which constitute the E.U. and which neighbouring states can believe in and aspire to join.

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

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.

It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.

To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries.

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 pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair.

Economic necessity will override patriotism and cause the nations of Western Europe to band together--if not under a single government, then certainly in a close politico-economic alliance

There are achievements of European integration that cannot be haggled over: for example the principle of free movement and the principle of non-discrimination.

This is what the European Union is all about. A strong market with a strong currency.

I believe that the E.U. should be the union of nation states and that all deepening of ties between the member states cannot go beyond the limits of democracy.

The European Union is here to stay.

The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation.

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

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

After choosing monetary union, further political union and workable governance in Europe was always going to be necessary.

I said, yet again, for Germany, Europe is not only indispensable, it is part and parcel of our identity. We've always said German unity, European unity and integration, that's two parts of one and the same coin. But we want, obviously, to boost our competitiveness.

Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary union.