EU regulations Quotes

The Brits are perfectly capable of managing the Brits and don't need Brussels telling them how to manage things.

The entire EU has labeling for GMOs, and is simply saying let's let consumers know what they're buying, let's let them choose. I think it's a huge mistake by the food manufacturers of America not to be saying let's let consumers know. Let's let them know, let them decide.

Designing our own agriculture policy will mean we can put behind us the quotas and regulations that have held back U.K. output during our years in the E.U.

A number of countries around the world, and indeed the E.U. as a whole, have chosen not to allow the import from the U.S. of beef from cows fed a diet that includes the hormone ractopamine, because of the fairly grave health concerns.

If you wish to have free access to the single market, then you have to accept the fundamental rights as well as obligation that come from it.

While, of course, you cannot discriminate between nationals of member states, access to the labour market does not mean automatic access to social security systems.

There is no access to the market without budgetary contributions... and without respect for the four freedoms of the E.U.

We've been a bit too defensive about the European Union rules. We don't want to become protectionist and nationalist in the way we buy things but we think we could do a lot more to promote British business through procurement.

The Government has correctly recognised that this E.U. law cannot all be changed into domestic law at once.

As long as U.K. remains member of the E.U., it should respect the E.U. law.

We have been fishing these waters for 150 years. The EU will not decide what we are doing in our waters.

More than 50% of significant new regulations that impact on business in the UK now emanate from the EU.

Nations are an historic reality in Europe. They all have different histories, and they joined the EU at very different times and under widely differing circumstances. I was mayor of Warsaw for three years and always in favor of Poland joining the EU. But I also experienced how we had to implement EU regulations that were completely inappropriate to our situation.

It horrifies me how much it costs to put on shows now, mainly due to EU regulations. The freedom to be entrepreneurial is no longer there. It's a massive business now.

The European Union, ok, right, it has a bureaucracy, right. It's sometimes difficult to deal with but so what? You hire a couple of people like me to work the European Union, and it can be done. It's pretty good.