Abandonment Quote by Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft

The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose…

— Maggie Gallagher

When I saw how the European Union was developing, it was very obvious what they had in mind was not democratic. In Britain, you…

— Tony Benn

It's wrong to focus only on economic cooperation and then to hope that a sufficiently stable system will become democratic more or less by…

— Alvaro de Vasconcelos

Well, that's the way democracy works. We have to build this Europe with the material we have at our disposal. And this material is…

— Timothy Garton Ash

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

We don't want to govern the country without democratic institutions.

— Jovenel Moise

Democratic governments are not delivering on their promises, which is partly due to the fact that governments are less powerful than they were after…

— Mary Robinson

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

— Tony Blair

A democratic Europe of nation states could be a force for liberty, enterprise and open trade. But, if creating a United States of Europe…

— Margaret Thatcher

Europe lacks leadership and a sense of mission and too many people don't feel a part of it.

— Peter Mandelson

What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration;…

— Margaret Thatcher

Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations.

— Peter Mandelson