Compromise Quote by Frans Timmermans

There are lots of things one can criticise about the European parliament, but it does work pretty well in terms of the speed with…

— Caroline Lucas

We need to have a bigger and more significant role for national parliaments. There is not, in my view, a single European demos.

— David Cameron

It is national parliaments, which are, and will remain, the true source of real democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU.

— David Cameron

Effectively, the EU is a very powerful bureaucracy, dominated now by the German elite, which is backed by the rest of the European Union…

— Tariq Ali

The European Union has become a prison of peoples. Each of the 28 countries that constitute it has slowly lost its democratic prerogatives to…

— Marine Le Pen

At the heart of these challenges lies the question of how the institutions of the European Union make laws, the types of laws they…

— John Hutton

Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that - more of…

— George Papandreou

I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

People feel that European institutions are remote and bureaucratic, run by shady cosmopolitan elites. Britain is not absolutely exceptional because if you look at…

— Timothy Garton Ash

Europe has shown how government can be organised in a network. Its institutions both compete and co-operate and include a directly elected parliament that…

— Geoff Mulgan

I am in favor of the European institutions being led for the next two-and-a-half years as they have been thus far. We need stability.

— Jean-Claude Juncker

I have absolutely no doubts that the best for the U.K. is to stay in the European Union.

— Miroslav Lajcak