Cooperation Quote by Alvaro de Vasconcelos

Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an…

— Ulrich Beck

People want their own laws to take precedence over those of the European Union. The French have understood that the EU does not live…

— Marine Le Pen

In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life…

— Catherine Ashton

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…

— Francois Hollande

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

— William Hague

It is an illusion to think that [EU] states can hold on to their autonomy.

— Hans Tietmeyer

Our relationship with the European Union, which has done so much to promote stability, stimulate economic growth, and foster the spread of democratic values…

— Barack Obama

There is a growing frustration that the EU is seen as something that is done to people rather than acting on their behalf. And…

— David Cameron

What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration;…

— Margaret Thatcher

Today the main, over-riding purpose of the European Union is different: not to win peace, but to secure prosperity.

— David Cameron

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

— William Hague

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

— William Hague