European Union Member States Quotes

The Commission is extremely important. The E.U. without the Commission would not be the European Union.

We know that the abilities of European Union member states are not infinite. As such, it makes little sense for us to criticize each other.All of us accepted Sweden's decision to introduce border controls too. And that is a country that was for decades the most open to immigration.

Without Britain, Europe would remain only a torso.

The European Union Treaty... within a few years will lead to the creation of what the founding fathers of modern Europe dreamed of after the war, the United States of Europe.

For Europe to play a part in the world on the scale of its wealth and its population and its capacities, Europe has to be united in some way, and Europe is not united.

Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

What is the issue that has brought the European Union to the brink? The issue of migration.

You can't deepen the European Union against the wishes of the European countries.

The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century.

I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.

The European Union cannot be compared to the United States. America is a nation, but Europe is not. Europe is a continent of many different nations with their own identities, traditions and languages. Robbing them of their national democracies does not create a European democracy - it destroys democracy in Europe.

Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in foreign and security policy. We have a leadership problem because we are still 27 different members who have still not decided on how to work with each other based on what we used to call a European constitution.

Effectively, the EU is a very powerful bureaucracy, dominated now by the German elite, which is backed by the rest of the European Union members.

I am a very committed European.

The Netherlands believes in a vigorous Europe with a commission that is independent and robust.