Quotes about the EU: European Union

I believe in Europe. I am convinced by Europe. Not only as a heritage from the past, but as hope and a vision for the future.

Our final goal must be to create the United States of Europe.

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.

We all know that Ukrainians are ready to die for the European perspective. We want them to live with us for the European dream.

Europe resembles a fine riverboat that was launched on a still ocean in 2000. And then the first storm that hit it, in 2008, started creating serious structural problems for it. We started leaking water. And of course, the people in the third class, as in the Titanic, start feeling the drowning effects first.

Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

The world needs more Europe.

Our united Europe is based on a promise: No more nationalism, no more war on our continent, no more racism, hate and violence!

We have to breathe new life into Europe.

I'm a great supporter of the European Union. I didn't support entry to the Euro, not because I'm against it in principle but because I didn't think it was economically right for Britain. But that doesn't make me any less pro-European.

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

It is not acceptable that European Union countries are divided into those who give and those who take.

Of course Brexit means that something is wrong in Europe. But Brexit means also that something was wrong in Britain.

To love Europe, is to love its nations. To love your country is to love Europe. Patriotism is a virtue. Unchecked nationalism is riddled with both poison and deceit.