Dreams Quote by Martin Schulz

I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe

— Kenneth Clarke

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

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

— Tony Blair

For the institutions of the European Union are at present incomplete. A European Senate is badly needed to complete them. By creating an upper…

— Larry Siedentop

If we are going to have a bicameral parliament, I think there should always be a reserved place for people whose background and experience…

— Neil Kinnock

We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European…

— Ibrahim Rugova

I would like us to look at best practice in other parliaments around the world, to see if there are other models that would…

— Lindsay Hoyle

If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe…

— Mario Monti

Implementing parts of European constitution and leaving out others - without knowing where we're going - isn't an option. That would be detrimental to…

— Angela Merkel

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

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

Parliament was an institution of enormous standing when I was aspiring to go in. It isn't now.

— Ann Widdecombe