Asset Quote by Anibal Cavaco Silva

Our future begins on January 1 1999. The euro is Europe's key to the 21st century. The era of solo national fiscal and economic…

— Gerhard Schroder

Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.

— Nigel Farage

The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom

— Margaret Thatcher

I have never understood why public opinion about European ideas should be taken into account.

— Raymond Barre

Slovenia wishes that Montenegro will continue successfully its way towards European integration and will reach peaceful co-habitation with other former Yugoslav peoples within a…

— Janez Drnovsek

We are involved in a constitution-building process of historic importance. The Convention should mark a new stage in European integration.

— Romano Prodi

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…

— Lionel Jospin

The development of European integration can be divided into two phases. The first era ended with the Maastricht Treaty. It was a liberalization phase,…

— Vaclav Klaus

All of us, the government, parliament, local authorities and the society must demonstrate determination and readiness to use knowledge and capabilities... toward full European…

— Igor Luksic

The future will belong to the Germans... ...when we build the House of Europe. In the next two years, we will make the process…

— Helmut Kohl

If there are further steps to European integration, the people should have their say at a general election or in a referendum.

— Tony Blair

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