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“The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should be for a fair trial. And that fair trial needs to have an impartial jury.”

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Author:Maria Cantwell

“The crisis in Ukraine is all the European Union's fault. Its leaders negotiated a trade deal with Ukraine, which essentially blackmailed the country to choose between Europe and Russia.”

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Author:Marine Le Pen

“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.”

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Author:Jean-Pierre Raffarin

“We still nurse a sense of our homogeneity and difference from others, and that's precisely what the European Union, in my view, should be doing its best to undermine.”

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Author:Peter Sutherland

“It is not so much the United States that is trying to push the European Union in one direction or another, it is developing nations as a whole that are pushing the United States and Europe to open their markets a little more.”

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Author:Pascal Lamy

“If it is presumed that the Kenyans will democratise in order to eat the peanuts of development assistance from the European Union... it would be a big mistake.”

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Author:Meles Zenawi

“Today, the European Union is busy transferring aid. If they can build infrastructure in Spain, roads, highways ... why do they refuse to use the same aid to build the same infrastructure in our countries?”

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Author:Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

“Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.”

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Author:Fatos Nano

“Given currency by Jrgen Habermas in the late l980s, 'constitutional patriotism' has emerged as an appealing principle for post-national political allegiance. Jan-Werner Mller traces the long postwar history of the concept, takes honest account of the conservative critiques it has provoked, but proposes that it can serve as a robust norm for European Union citizenship. This is a profound meditation with real importance for contemporary political society.”

“Kosovo's destiny is clearly to join the European Union at some point.”

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Author:Emma Bonino

“Transforming the European Union into a single State with one army, one constitution and one foreign policy is the critical challenge of the age”

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Author:Joschka Fischer

“I am for joining a free trade zone. The European Union is not such zone, but a zone of raging bureaucracy which stears every hectolitre of wine, and every tone of beef.”

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Author:Janusz Korwin-Mikke

“The entire European Union is a left-wing dream”

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Author:Dennis Prager

“The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.”

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Author:John Bruton

“If we get the capabilities, NATO, along with the European Union, can do amazing things.”

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Author:George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

“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.”

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Author:Jan Peter Balkenende

“We don't want protectionism at the heart of the European Union.”

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Author:Guy Verhofstadt

“The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.”

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Author:Maggie Gallagher

“The views of the European Union are fully reflected in this text, particularly the key objective of the EU, namely vigorously to address the disarmament of Iraq and to do so within the framework of the UN Security Council.”

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Author:Javier Solana

“China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population.”

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Author:Jo Ann Emerson

“My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.”

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Author:Paddy Ashdown

“No matter who becomes chancellor, Poland and Germany will remain neighbours, strategic partners, not only within the European Union, but also world partners, and I don't believe anything could change in our relations.”

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Author:Marek Belka

“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.”

“Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union.”

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Author:Eduard Shevardnadze

“The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States. It should help us adjust to the development of China.”

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Author:Laurent Fabius

“We must stress that the euro has been beneficial to the European Union because, otherwise, in this context of international turmoil, every country would have to devalue their currencies.”

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Author:Jean-Pierre Raffarin

“So, the international community are all the countries that are important: the United States definitely everywhere; the European Union because it is very important, and also, they do show a great deal of international responsibility; and then the local players.”

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Author:Lakhdar Brahimi

“Old ideas from an old man about an old vision of Europe.”

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Author:Denis MacShane

“We must go back to teach Europeans to love Europe.”

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Author:Jean-Claude Juncker

“If this Constitution does not have the support of the people of Europe and on reflection is not deemed to signpost a structure of Europe of the twenty-first century, then we simply have to go back to the drawing board.”

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Book:The Making of Europe's Constitution

Source: The Making of Europe's Constitution

“This will provide an engine, an example that will allow Europe to go faster, further and better.”

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Author:Jacques Chirac

“This is crossing the Rubicon, after which there will be no more sovereign states in Europe with fully-fledged governments and parliaments which represent legitimate interests of their citizens, but only one State will remain. Basic things will be decided by a remote 'federal government' in Brussels and, for example, Czech citizens will be only a tiny particle whose voice and influence will be almost zero. ... We are against a European superstate.”

“We've got to be explicit that the road to greater economic success does not lie in this cosy assumption that you can move from a single market through a single currency to harmonising all your taxes and then having a federal fiscal policy and then effectively having a federal state.”

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Author:Gordon Brown

“An enlarged Union based on Nice is not in the interest of any Member State ... This is not a threat. This is a messenger delivering news.”

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Author:Joschka Fischer

“One basic formula for understanding the Community is this: 'Take five broken empires, add the sixth one later, and make one big neo-colonial empire out of it all.'”

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Author:Johan Galtung

“Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power? In other words, not just a trading bloc but a political entity. Do we realise that our nation states, taken individually, would find it far more difficult to assert their existence and their identity on the world stage.”

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Author:Romano Prodi

“Thanks to the euro, our pockets will soon hold solid evidence of a European identity. We need to build on this, and make the euro more than a currency and Europe more than a territory... In the next six months, we will talk a lot about political union, and rightly so. Political union is inseparable from economic union. Stronger growth and Euorpean integration are related issues. In both areas we will take concrete steps forward.”

“We already have a federation. The 11, soon to be 12, member States adopting the euro have already given up part of their sovereignty, monetary sovereignty, and formed a monetary union, and that is the first step towards a federation.”

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Author:Joschka Fischer

“We will have to create an avant-garde.... We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde.”

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Author:Jacques Delors

“To promote the process of European integration, we must improve an institutional mechanism already existing in the European Union, reinforced co-operation, by making it more flexible and effective. This approach allows a few states to move faster and further... We are all aware that this mechanism is vital.”

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Author:Lionel Jospin

“If you don't want to call it a European army, don't call it a European army. You can call it 'Margaret', you can call it 'Mary-Anne', you can find any name, but it is a joint effort for peace-keeping missions - the first time you have a joint, not bilateral, effort at European level.”

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Author:Romano Prodi

“We must now face the difficult task of moving towards a single economy, a single political entity .. For the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire we have the opportunity to unite Europe.”

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Author:Romano Prodi

“I have always found the word 'Europe' on the lips of those who wanted something from others which they dared not demand in their own names!”

Wanted Found Names Demand Europe Lips European Union Euro

Author:Otto von Bismarck

“Nationalism is war. - in arguing to strengthen the federal powers of the European Union”

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Author:Francois Mitterrand

“The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.”

Needs Helping Political Democracy Demand Europe Unions Translations European Union Political Will

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.”

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Author:Nigel Farage

“In 2012, the far-right Golden Dawn won 21 seats in Greece's parliamentary election, the right-wing Jobbik gained ground in my native Hungary, and the National Front's Marine Le Pen received strong backing in France's presidential election. Growing support for similar forces across Europe points to an inescapable conclusion: the continent's prolonged financial crisis is creating a crisis of values that is now threatening the European Union itself.”

“By the way, the European Union Member States together - even the euro area Member States together - are by far the biggest contributors to the IMF.”

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Author:Jose Manuel Barroso

“The euro area must not be treated as an "opt out" from the European Union.”

Areas Unions Treated European Union Euro

Author:Jose Manuel Barroso

“European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.”

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Author:Tarja Halonen

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