Behave Quote by Romano Prodi

In American politics, 'Europe' is usually a code word for 'big government.'

— James Surowiecki

Effectively, the EU is a very powerful bureaucracy, dominated now by the German elite, which is backed by the rest of the European Union…

— Tariq Ali

People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until…

— William Hague

People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until…

— William Hague

Europe has shown how government can be organised in a network. Its institutions both compete and co-operate and include a directly elected parliament that…

— Geoff Mulgan

It [the Euro] is a decisive step towards ever closer political and institutional union in Europe. Above all, it is political.

— Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

“And yet, for all its faults as a system of indirect government, the Union has certain interesting and original attributes. Decisions and laws may…

— Tony Judt

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 have to give ourselves a constitution which marks the birth of Europe as a political entity.

— Romano Prodi

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

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

The European Union, ok, right, it has a bureaucracy, right. It`s sometimes difficult to deal with but so what? You hire a couple of…

— Daniel Fried