Creation Quote by Helmut Kohl

Starting from the ruins of the Second World War, we - all Europeans said, after centuries of fighting each other, we're going to build…

— Timothy Garton Ash

We created NATO. It was a United States invention for the collective security of Europe. It has been a Russian desire since 1947 to…

— Malcolm Nance

Europe was initially supposed to be primarily a political project! The EU never would have come about had it been up to experts or…

— Emmanuel Macron

Over the years, the European Union and the United States have worked together to ensure peace and prosperity for our citizens and for people…

— Donald Tusk

I wanted to start by saying that the eurozone - there are two reasons they formed the European Union. One is for political peace…

— Jamie Dimon

In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war.

— Townsend Harris

It [European Union] has kept the peace in Europe. Countries used to fight and now they talk. We should be attached to that.

— David Cameron

Europe thus divided into nationalities freely formed and free internally, peace between States would have become easier: the United States of Europe would become…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I think that what started out as a European Union originally was probably a really wonderful and world-changing idea, the idea of a kind…

— Tavis Smiley

What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe.

— Peter Mandelson

The European Union and the United States of America are the big important economic areas for us, which is why I always have come…

— Angela Merkel

America after Trump may be more like the European Union; a rambling alliance of interstate compacts, rather than the forced marriage of a country…

— Joy Reid