Jean-Claude Juncker Quotes
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Europe must not distance itself from Africa's universal ambitions.
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I am not a dwarf.
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If we allow Catalonia - and it is none of our business - to separate, others will do the same. I do not want that.
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The constitutional treaty was an easily understandable treaty. This is a simplified treaty which is very complicated.'
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There can be no democratic choice against the European treaties, one cannot exit the euro without leaving the EU.
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The European family may well be anything but perfect. But it is the best thing that we have for bringing the countries of Europe around the same table and for forging compromises so that people here can live in peace, freedom, and prosperity.
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We all know what to do, we just don’t know how to get re-elected after we’ve done it.
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Monetary policy is a serious issue. We should discuss this in secret, in the Eurogroup ... I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious ... I am for secret, dark debates.
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God understands more about the financial markets than many who write about them.
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In 1913 many believed that there would never again be a war in Europe. The great powers of the continent were so closely intertwined economically that the view was widespread that they could no longer afford to have military confrontations.
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I believe that if we don't offer legal ways of emigrating to Europe and immigrating within Europe, we will be lost. If those who come - who are, generally speaking, the poor and needy - are no longer able to enter the house of Europe through the front door, they'll keep making their way in through the back windows.
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The rule of law means that law and justice are upheld by an independent judiciary. The judgments of the European Court of Justice have to be respected by all. To undermine them, or to undermine the independence of national courts, is to strip citizens of their fundamental rights. The rule of law is not optional in the European Union. It is a must.
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I am against nationalists, but I am very much in favour of patriots.
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I have met in my life two big destroyers: Gorbachev, who destroyed the Soviet Union, and Cameron, who destroyed the United Kingdom to some extent, even if there is no wave of Scotland to become independent.
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The populists themselves are dangerous, but they are far more dangerous when the traditional, classic parties adopt their harmful proposals.
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This was a continent of divisions, of wars, of conflicts, of divergences, differences... When I am in Asia, in Africa, people admire what we have managed to do. Europe is beautiful seen from other continents.
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However painful or regrettable Brexit may be, it will not stop the E.U. as it moves to the future; we need to move forward.
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From the very beginning, Europe has been not only a success story but also a story of success achieved by learning.
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The European Union has decades of experience in overcoming crises and has always emerged stronger after.
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Being described as a stupid bureaucrat with no link to representative democracy is difficult to take.
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If someone complains about Europe from Monday to Saturday, then nobody is going to believe him on Sunday when he says he is a convinced European.
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Our idea is to make the U.K. a privileged partner of the E.U.
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As complicated and complex and as difficult as we are, the unity of Europe is a pre-condition for a better organized world, and if the European Union would fail or decompose, or other members left, the U.S. would have a more difficult role to play in the world.
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We decide on something, leave it lying around and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.