Europe Quote by Gunther Oettinger

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

The countries of Europe are too small to guarantee their peoples the necessary prosperity and social development. The European states must constitute themselves into…

— Jean Monnet

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

— Stephen Harper

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

I'm a pessimist about the euro, but not about Europe. So the southern periphery, Spain, Italy, Greece, leave - Italy might be the first…

— Tyler Cowen

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

For me, arguably, the European Parliament is the best-functioning European institution. They are extremely good at law-making; they're extremely good at finding compromise under…

— Frans Timmermans

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

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

Nothing would be better today if Europe were divided or smaller. Today we have to say loud and clear that the crises, which have…

— Donald Tusk

In many European countries we have populist indirect democratic systems. The people elect, in a proportionate manner, a parliament. The parliament with all its…

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

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