Top 321 EU Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
More than 50% of significant new regulations that impact on business in the UK now emanate from the EU.
The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc.
The U.S. has dropped its role as the vanguard of free trade, they are looking for a new partner: the EU.
As somebody who campaigned to leave the EU, I believe we have a bright future ahead of us- but we have to get it right.
Much of what we buy relies on products from the EU - purchases that British importers make in euros.
Donald Trump is not just a problem for the EU, but for the whole world.
What we should be doing in the EU as a whole is more economic integration in the single market, rather than less.
The use of EU summits to frame political victories or defeats is an annoying habit.
I put my money on Brexit. The EU Financial Stability Commissioner, Jonathan Hill from Britain, still owes me a pound.
The problem is that this round from its inception has had agriculture at its centerpiece. The EU and the U. S. and other WTO members cannot wish that away, that is a reality.
The EU is on the brink of becoming a European Federation by the year 2010... I feel sure that Britain will fall in line.
The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans.
Political leaders need to formulate long-term EU goals that show: Yes, we want to stay together.
Boris [Johnson] and Dave [Cameron] gnawed each other's testicles [during the Tory civil war which blighted the EU referendum].
I am disgusted at the way May has been speaking. The EU nationals living in the UK came here legally and they have protected rights.
The advantages we gain from EU membership clearly and categorically outweigh any disadvantages that come with it.
Of course former colonial powers are always more present and influential. They're the ones who need to defend the EU's values on the frontlines.
No one imposes things on anyone in Europe. That's not my notion, nor is it my temperament. The EU has always functioned under the banner of respect, equilibrium and trust.
I find it surprising, however, that many German politicians generally oppose referendums, but then when it's an EU matter, they immediately scream for a plebiscite.
I think that the EU with the Lisbon agenda has put the right emphasis on growth and employment.
It is national parliaments, which are, and will remain, the true source of real democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU.
Since January 1993 there have been 27 other countries not in the EU that have done better than the UK at exporting goods into the single market.
It is a mystery why any Americans would support the concept of the EU.
In the days before the vote, I bet that the British would stay in the EU.
The EU will not stop wars: it wants an army to fight them.
In the EU, we agree that the pressures causing migration must be reduced.
The EU is mired in deep structural crisis. Greece, Portugal and Ireland cannot survive inside the Euro.
U.S. companies earn more from their investments in the EU than in the rest of the world combined.
The EU should help the emergence of "organized multipolarity" in the currently non-polar world.
If the EU and its 25 member states make a clever use of all policy instruments, broadband for all Europeans is certainly not out of reach by 2010.
I expect Europe's top-level domain, .eu, to become similarly as important as dot-com.
Turkey will "inevitably" join the EU in our lifetime unless we vote to leave.
Germany must continue to champion the world's biggest free single market, and under its leadership, the EU can overcome its internal differences.
If the EU and the US can cooperate successfully on regulating financial markets, everyone else will follow.
Rather than bring peace and harmony, the EU will cause insurgency and violence.
Before we talk about further accessions, we have to consolidate the European Union internally. People are increasingly losing faith in the EU's effectiveness.
Any attempt to wriggle, especially from leadership candidates who campaigned to leave the EU by focusing on immigration, will be unacceptable to the public.
The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels.
Adding an overarching tier of tyrants - the EU - to European governments has benefited Europeans as a second hangman enhances the health of a condemned man.
In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.
I admire [Alex] Salmond in many ways but my problem with him has always been this independence thing within the EU, which is rubbish.
I genuinely believe the next leader has to be somebody who sees the opportunity of leaving the EU and is completely determined to deliver on what the people have told us to do.
The problem with us EU politicians is that we approach everything with cool rationality, and then wonder why we don't win people over emotionally.
The EU should have consolidated its different presences and purposes in Kosovo earlier.
As politicians we have to react to the fact that many people do not feel that they can relate to the EU.
EU didn't advance our [Eastern Europe] democracy by a single millimeter.
One thing which frustrates me about state pensions is the disparity between EU countries.
I really and definitely think that France has the capability to come forward. The EU should maintain their own position, without influence.
...within ten years 80% of our economic legislation, perhaps even fiscal and social as well' would come from the EU.
It remains overwhelmingly and compellingly in Britain's national interest that the EU should succeed.
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 voted to remain because I thought it was costly and complicated to leave the EU, and that is clearly still the case. But there are opportunities and challenges.
All the people I talk to, increasingly, can see that the emperor has got no clothes. The case for leaving [the EU] is now overwhelming.
To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries.
If the EU doesn?'t want Turkey, they should say it now and clearly. If we are not wanted, then both sides don?t need to waste their time with negotiations.
Everybody who comes to the EU as a migrant is basically coming illegally.
It's time to recognize that the EU is beyond reform and deserves to be put out of its misery.
The American agenda is sweeping everything before it, and although it's not perfect, the EU is better on environmental issues. It's a less rapacious form of capitalism.
NATO and the EU have also agreed on permanent arrangements on consultation and cooperation between themselves.
The idea that the EU is somehow the guarantor of peace on the continent - that is in itself rash, in my view, and risks undermining the vital role of Nato.