European Future Quotes

Nationalist, anti-European, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim public political figures, seem a worrying picture of a possible European future. We could still fall back into pre-Europe... and it worries me.

Young Europeans who love freedom, better emigrate. Europe as we know it will no longer exist 20 years from now. We are watching the world of yesterday … Europe is turning Muslim

I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.

The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.

Economically and politically, Germany is extremely stable. There are countries with functioning governments whose institutions don't work. My only concern is about Europe. There's a risk we will run out of time. We have been blessed with a pro-European French president, but we are also approaching the next elections for the European Parliament in 2019, and it will be important for pro-European parties present a credible answer to the anti-Europeans on the left and the right.

But Maastricht was not the end of history. It was a first step towards a Europe of growth, of employment, a social Europe. That was the vision of Francois Mitterrand. We are far from that now.

The Marshall Plan was after destruction, and the U.S. came to our help and obviously this was very, very important for the future of Europe. I think now we have all the capabilities of doing it on our own and, in a sense, we have to.

The main threat to the future of Europe is not those who want to come here to live but our own political, economic, and intellectual elites bent on transforming Europe against the clear will of the European people.

Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity, but it needs to be rethought, refounded.

The state of Europe is so bad that I cannot see any future in Europe other than its Islamization or a civil war

That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas.

If there's no future for Jews in Europe, there's no future for Europe.

You need a debate and a vote on the principles: Do you want more Europe or less Europe? Do you believe we are more efficient with defense and security with Europe, or not? Do you believe we are more efficient for our companies with or without Europe? Those are the questions we have to discuss and push our people to vote on it.

The key question for the future of Europe is whether these faiths will live together in peace or whether they will tear Europe apart.

It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration from her, we should lean and turn to Europe, for it is there our future prosperity lies.

I am, however, deeply saddened by this [Brexit] vote by the British electorate. But I respect their decision. What is crucial now is that we focus very precisely on what Europe can do for people: stimulate investment, create jobs and together ensure the safety and security of our citizens.

There is a meta discussion, which is the discussion of either good or evil, between freedom and democracy as opposed to totalitarians and murderers. I have decided to take sides with good and against the woke crowd and their stupid interpretation of freedom, out of which comes the account of oppressors versus the oppressed, which is, at bottom, post-Marxism. They have taken the class struggle to other issues—women against men, black against white, the indigenous people’s agenda, the LGBT agenda, the climate agenda, man against nature. The most violent expression of this is the abortion agenda, which is disguised as goodness when in fact it’s a bloody agenda. Unless Europe breaks from that agenda, it will be doomed and disappear in the way that we know it.

France is ready for a European revolution and it is Germany that is pulling the brakes. For a long time, it was the other way around. You don't have to agree with the details of every single one of Emmanuel Macron's suggestions, but he's right about the idea of a new foundation of Europe. Europe's Social Democrats have long demanded this. If we really want to, we can create a different, better Europe in the coming years.

We need a big debate in society about how we are going to shape Europe and tame capitalism. A government must provide direction and make concrete proposals. It is one of Angela Merkel's biggest failings that she doesn't do this.

It is in my heart that I believe most strongly that our future is within a reformed E.U. - not least because we now live in a global marketplace.

I am going to leave the future of Europe to the Europeans.

Is Europe going to be breaking? I don't think so. I think the euro will stay. I think at the end of the day Europeans will find the solutions in order to hold Europe together.

How can we still speak of the salvation and reformation of Europe, when we have to ask Europe's destroyer for help?

It's not attractive at the moment to vouch for the European idea. I still do it, because I believe nothing would be better for our continent.

My obligation, if I become president, is to give another direction to Europe than the one that is being forced upon us today.