Circle Quote by Georgi Parvanov

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

My first guiding principle is this: willing and active co-operation between independent sovereign states. Europe will be stronger precisely because it has France as…

— Margaret Thatcher

The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc.

— David Cameron

Without a tighter union, Europe will disintegrate

— Rem Koolhaas

The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc. We must…

— David Cameron

Europe cannot be only the receiver of strategic decisions of others, that is China or the U.S.A. We have to be strong ourselves to…

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

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…

— Vaclav Klaus

Europe is slow to react, it is lagging behind in competitiveness, there are problems with demography, population, serious problems with security, internal security and…

— Viktor Orban

We [European countries] probably need to move forward together, each at their own speed. The faster ones, that could be the countries in the…

— Paolo Gentiloni

This goes back to the main challenge we are facing, because Europe at the moment is not competitive. We have many imbalances and my…

— Mark Rutte

In the long run, Europe will certainly move toward unification. But it will be a process of push and pull, and there will be…

— Norman Davies

Whatever the details of union may be, there's no doubt we need more policy coordination in Europe.

— Gerhard Schroder