European Sovereignty Quotes

Common foreign policy is completely unnecessary. The various European countries have widely differing priorities, goals and prejudices. It would be wrong to force them all to follow the same course.

It's not for Germany to decide for the rest of Europe.

I think that if a United States of Europe were to be formed, it would be in our interests to fight for it, as all our old traditions would remain in such a united Europe, whereas if we were to start now as part of the Russian Empire, everything that had ever been in Germany would disappear.

I'm against the European Union, but I am very much in favor of Europe.

Only Europeans can decide what is best for Europe.

It [the Euro] is a decisive step towards ever closer political and institutional union in Europe. Above all, it is political.

Without Britain, Europe would remain only a torso.

We Europeans must really take our destiny into our own hands, of course in friendship with the United States, in friendship with Great Britain, with other neighbors wherever possible, also with Russia. But we must know that we need to fight for our future ourselves, as Europeans, for our destiny.

Europe started very well in the 1950s with a trading bloc but it became a political project, and we transferred sovereignty to them. If you don't know what you are - and this is the intention of the E.U. elites - you don't know what you're not either. We should regain our sovereignty again.

We need to restore democracy and sovereignty in Europe.

I completely agree with Helmut Kohl. I am not an advocate of the "United States of Europe," nor am I an integration fanatic.

We are not some small landlocked European country who needs the E.U. to make decisions for us or protect us from competition.

I want to destroy the EU, not Europe! I believe in a Europe of nation-states. I believe in Airbus and Ariane, in a Europe based on cooperation. But I don't want this European Soviet Union.

The Turkey deal can only be Plan B. Plan A needs to be a strong Europe that is prepared to defend its external borders on its own. If we do not do that, then we are living in a Europe that is dependent - on other countries, and possibly even on personalities like President Erdogan. And dependency is dangerous.

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

I am in favour of a different Europe, where each state can adopt its fiscal and monetary system.

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

'Populism' is a compliment to me. We envision a different Europe where every E.U. country should have the freedom to decide its own economic policies.

Europe cannot be only the receiver of strategic decisions of others, that is China or the U.S.A. We have to be strong ourselves to shape the global rules.

Americans, for their part, must accept that a strong Europe will not be content to simply do America's bidding.

To be honest, there are many things said about Russia because they have been demonized for years at the behest of the USA. It is part of the greatness of a European country to develop one's own opinion and to not view everything through the US lens. We have no lesson to teach Russia if we concurrently roll out the red carpet to Qatar, Saudi Arabia and China.

There is not, in my view, a single European demos.

Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's about everyday lives.

When my father began his work in the 1970s it was a very different EU. I pay tribute to what he did. But it has now become a very different proposition: the United States of Europe.

Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.