Computers Quote by 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

People feel that in too many ways the EU is something that is done to them, not something over which they have a say.

— William Hague

There is a growing frustration that the EU is seen as something that is done to people rather than acting on their behalf. And…

— David Cameron

People feel that the EU is heading in a direction that they never signed up to. They resent the interference in our national life…

— 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

The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It…

— William Hague

People want their own laws to take precedence over those of the European Union. The French have understood that the EU does not live…

— Marine Le Pen

I think that Europe has to get its act together very quickly. The Belgian guy who's leading the negotiations against Brexit, he sees it…

— Irvine Welsh

The EU is deeply harmful, it is an anti-democratic monster. I want to prevent it from becoming fatter, from continuing to breathe, from grabbing…

— Marine Le Pen

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

It is an illusion to think that [EU] states can hold on to their autonomy.

— Hans Tietmeyer

So yes, European decision making is not pretty. But it does work.

— Helle Thorning-Schmidt