Donald Tusk Quotes

I don't want a Europe that is just a free-trade area attached to NATO. Even less do I want a Europe where it's everyone against everyone, and social and fiscal dumping replaces solidarity.

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

Solidarity and competitiveness are the two sides of a European coin.

The strength of Europe at the end of the day has always been that we stuck together and that demands a great amount - probably even more so than in the past - of discussions, of balancing, of bringing along individual countries.

We have to be serious and consistent if we believe the European Union makes sense. I believe it makes sense.

Why am I such a Euro-enthusiast? Because I knew it was an anchor of democracy.

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.

The E.U. is more than just a trade organization or a common market; it is a guarantee of democracy, freedom, justice, and human rights. Nations cannot stay in the E.U. if they do not respect these guarantees.

By all means, let's have free trade and no trade barriers and a common market. But where did it all suddenly become about our own economic and political destiny being surrendered to Brussels with agendas that arguably have very little to do with the interests of the British people and British voters?

I do not separate France from Europe.

While the Marshall Plan was important for Europe's recovery, Europe's prosperity was really built on economic integration and policy coherence.

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.

France is the bridge between northern Europe and southern Europe. I refuse any division. If Europe has been reunified, it's not for it to then fall into egotism or 'each for one's own'. Our duty is to set common rules around the principles of responsibility and solidarity.

Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that - more of a deeper political union.

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.

Limitless enlargement of Europe means the death of political Europe.

German and European unification are two sides of the same coin.

The E.U. has its weaknesses, but it's been pretty good for us, and it's been pretty good for Europe, and it's kept peace.

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

Our common responsibility is to put Europe's interests first.

The European Union has decades of experience in overcoming crises and has always emerged stronger after.

At German unification, we were lucky to get so much help from West Germany. Now, we have the good fortune of being able to help each other in Europe.

What we need is a common goal for more Europe.

If there is not a united policy, this mechanism will not work: it will collapse, and it will... undoubtedly be the end of Schengen, the return of national borders.

As much as I believe in the Franco-German partnership, I question the idea of a duopoly. European construction is based on a well-balanced and respectful partnership between France and Germany.