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Europe Quotes by William Hague

10 Europe quotes by William Hague

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William Hague’s voice on Europe comes through in ten compact observations, balancing his diplomatic experience with a clear-eyed view of the continent’s challenges and opportunities.

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Remember the No campaign is Conservative people, Labour people, people of no party.

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It's not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty.

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The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the…

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Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.

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I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in…

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People feel that in too many ways the EU is something that is done to them, not something over which they have…

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The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels.

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People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European…

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People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European…

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When we said that no more areas of power should go to the EU we were right. And now thanks to the…

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There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.

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When we said that no more areas of power should go to the EU we were right. And now thanks to the European Union…

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You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to…

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Not all politicians are bonkers, but most of them are.

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I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.

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When you reduce taxes on higher earners it's vital to be reducing them on lower earning people as well so the nation shares in…

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A generation of children has been betrayed.

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It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.

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Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.

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Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in…

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The total economy of Latin America is bigger than China.

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I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.

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Remember the No campaign is Conservative people, Labour people, people of no party.

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I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction.

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Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman!

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