Top 140 European Union Quotes

We don’t want protectionism at the heart of the European Union.
Guy Verhofstadt
Terrorism is an evil that threatens all the countries in Europe. Vigorous cooperation in the European Union and worldwide is crucial in order to meet this evil head on.
Jan Peter Balkenende
Instead of trying to bring freedom to the Arab world, couldn’t we just concentrate on trying to fend off the European Union and defending our own porous borders?
Peter Hitchens
America after Trump may be more like the European Union; a rambling alliance of interstate compacts, rather than the forced marriage of a country that emerged after the Civil War.
Joy Reid
I believe something very deeply. That Britain’s national interest is best served in a flexible, adaptable and open European Union and that such a European Union is best with Britain in it.
David Cameron
We need a Palestinian state – that is the ultimate goal, and this is the position of all the European Union.
Federica Mogherini
Mexico is the second most important destination of U.S. exports. What does this mean? The U.S. sells to our country almost the same as it sells to all the European Union, five times what it sells Brazil. More than what it sells together to Brazil, Russia, China, and India.
Enrique Pena Nieto
Everyone understands the European Union is a failure. It has not kept any of its promises – in particular about prosperity, security – and, worst of all, has put us under a guardianship.
Marine Le Pen
Whether we remain in the European Union will determine Britain’s future role in the world and the comparative success of our economy for our children and grandchildren.
Kenneth Clarke
Our objective must therefore be to ensure EU better reg

Our objective must therefore be to ensure EU better regulation contributes towards delivering a modern European Union which relentlessly focuses on building a dynamic and innovative economy equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century.
John Hutton
It’s a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.
Nigel Farage
The British people voted to leave the European Union – let’s just leave.
Mark Francois
Europe is no longer a Christian continent; few Europeans attend religious services on Sunday, and the European Union recently refused to refer to Europe’s religious heritage in its fledgling constitution.
Meir Soloveichik
I think it’s extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.
John Major
We are also trying to fight successfully in the European Union against anti-Semitism. Because of Austria’s history, it is, from my point of view, our obligation to do that.
Sebastian Kurz
The ability to control our borders stands at the heart of the debate on whether or not Britain should leave the European Union.
Priti Patel
I have spent more time thinking about European issues than even I can imagine – so many years thinking about Britain and the way our influence around the world was amplified through the European Union.
Jo Johnson
The heart of the matter is that the very nature of the European Union, and of this country’s relationship with it, has fundamentally changed after the coming into being of the European monetary union and the creation of the eurozone, of which – quite rightly – we are not a part.
Nigel Lawson
My mum is Palestinian and my dad is British but worked all his life from the European Union for their Foreign Action Service. So I was born in Hammersmith but moved away when I was one. That’s when dad joined the European Commission.
Layla Moran
I remain committed to a balanced policy, which will protect our national interests both on our eastern border – I mean with Russia – and of course with the European Union.
Viktor Yanukovych
If we get the capabilities, NATO, along with the European Union, can do amazing things.
Lord Robertson
We are convinced that Turkey would be a useful member of the European Union.
Martti Ahtisaari
There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
Federica Mogherini
Anyone who’s working in manufacturing here should know they will have increased opportunities if we leave the European Union.
Michael Gove
The European Union will never see America, or an American president, as a risk.
Federica Mogherini
Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations.
Giorgio Napolitano
We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go, as I say, more in that direction of respect for democracy and human rights.
William Hague
We have a commitment to making sure that the U.K. remains a member of the European Union.
Chuka Umunna
I want to show a new vector of policy that will be there when I will become a president. And my vector is friendship with America and friendship with European Union.
Ksenia Sobchak
We link our future to the euro, to the euro zone, and to the European Union while being the nearest neighbor of the United Kingdom with, obviously, a common travel area and a very close working relationship with the U.K.
Enda Kenny
Boris Johnson’s experience in life is telling a lot of porkies about the European Union in Brussels and then becoming prime minister.
Nicholas Soames
If the European Union wants to be an address where civilizations meet, it must take Turkey in.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
It’s unbearable to see the people betrayed time and again by politicians who don’t keep their promises and by the technocrats at the European Union.
Marine Le Pen
I think that the European Union negotiators have gotten a shock. They were shocked when they realised the Brexit trade negotiations were not just going to be a continuation of those that happened under Theresa May.
Claire Fox
The European Union is the world’s most successful invention for advancing peace.
John Bruton
The European Union arose on an economic foundation, and it turns out that even this is not a solid base. Cultural identity has been neglected.
Gunter Grass
Brexit is a disaster, Italy won’t be real about its debt, and the European Union is in trouble.
John Layfield
In 2015, the majority of refugees and migrants reached the European Union through Greece. Greek authorities were overwhelmed by the sheer number of people arriving at their shores. But they did not stay there. They were waved through to Central Europe at an increasing pace.
Sebastian Kurz
Germany benefits the most from the European Union because Germany is, by far, the biggest exporter into the Euro Zone, and therefore, it benefits. And one who benefits the most must take the biggest responsibility.
Joe Kaeser
Indians invest more in Britain than in the rest of European Union combined. It is not because they want to save on interpretation costs, but because they find an environment that is welcoming and familiar.
Narendra Modi
Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the ru

Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.
Jose Manuel Barroso
The day after Britain voted to leave the European Union, I woke up determined to make a success of Brexit. I was surprised by how quickly I went to acceptance of the result, without passing through any of the prior stages of grief.
Jo Johnson
While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran’s nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations.
Earl Blumenauer
I think that we must come together progressively, with the British, the Germans, the Spanish, the Italians and with the new members of the European Union, we must make an effort to forge closer links.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
I would love to help the textile sector, but at the same time, a big red flag is held by the automotive parts and automotive sector. They don’t want to open up to the European Union.
Nirmala Sitharaman
There have been major disagreements within the European Union.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
The British people have decided to leave. It is a sad decision but one which I respect. The vote puts the European Union in difficulties. It must recognise its shortfalls.
Francois Hollande
If I don’t manage to negotiate with the European Union, something I wish, then I will ask the French to leave the European Union. And then you’ll be able to call me Madame Frexit.
Marine Le Pen
When it comes to whether Britain should remain in the European Union, almost all political parties and traditions – Labour, the Greens, Liberal Democrats, the SNP, Plaid Cymru, and half of the Tory Party – agree that we are better off in Europe.
Hilary Benn
We believe that from both a German and a Polish perspective, it is desirable for Great Britain to remain in the European Union.
Angela Merkel
We need to put Italian interests before those of the European Union, or at least at the same level.
Matteo Salvini
I’d like to see the argument made for greater worldwide federalism, not just the European Union.
Ben Miller
Let me be absolutely clear: I think it is defeatist to sort of say we want to leave the European Union. We’re going to try and change the rules and change the way it works and change the objectives that it has in order to make it something that works for Britain.
Philip Hammond
The European Union should come up with a solid plan to help especially Poland and Slovakia make this transition away from coal.
Frans Timmermans
As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.
Jonathan Sacks
I have specifically argued that we need to change our relationship with the European Union by fundamentally reforming not just our relationship but the European Union itself.
Michael Gove
If we left the European Union, it would be a one-way ticket, not a return. So we will have time for a proper, reasoned debate. At the end of that debate you, the British people, will decide.
David Cameron