Words matter. These are the best Jean-Claude Juncker Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I am strictly against a European superstate.
The populists themselves are dangerous, but they are far more dangerous when the traditional, classic parties adopt their harmful proposals.
In a union of equals, there can be no second-class consumers. I will not accept that in some parts of Europe, people are sold food of lower quality than in other countries, despite the packaging and branding being identical.
The European family may well be anything but perfect. But it is the best thing that we have for bringing the countries of Europe around the same table and for forging compromises so that people here can live in peace, freedom, and prosperity.
My main concern is to protect people from detriment.
However painful or regrettable Brexit may be, it will not stop the E.U. as it moves to the future; we need to move forward.
Of course Brexit means that something is wrong in Europe. But Brexit means also that something was wrong in Britain.
It is not acceptable that European Union countries are divided into those who give and those who take.
Being described as a stupid bureaucrat with no link to representative democracy is difficult to take.
If someone complains about Europe from Monday to Saturday, then nobody is going to believe him on Sunday when he says he is a convinced European.
From the very beginning, Europe has been not only a success story but also a story of success achieved by learning.
If we allow Catalonia – and it is none of our business – to separate, others will do the same. I do not want that.
We decide on something, leave it lying around, and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don’t understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.
God understands more about the financial markets than many who write about them.
I am not a dwarf.
As complicated and complex and as difficult as we are, the unity of Europe is a pre-condition for a better organized world, and if the European Union would fail or decompose, or other members left, the U.S. would have a more difficult role to play in the world.
No, we should not be afraid of the populists; we should embrace those they are fighting.
Our idea is to make the U.K. a privileged partner of the E.U.
Anyone who believes that the eternal question of war and peace in Europe is no longer there risks being deeply mistaken.
The European Union has decades of experience in overcoming crises and has always emerged stronger after.
