Jose Manuel Barroso Quotes
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There is no stability without solidarity and no solidarity without stability.
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The E.U. is founded on the Treaties which apply only to the Member States who have agreed and ratified them.
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I believe that Europe without Britain at the heart will be less reform-driven, less open, less international Europe.
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I don't know why my son was born conservative.
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Financial transaction tax raises problems of competition.
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Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.
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I am a very committed European.
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We need open, competitive, market economies... but at the same time with effective regulation and supervision.
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Norway or Switzerland are two marvelous countries, I very much admire, the most advanced countries in the world in fact with great qualities of life.
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The Eurogroup decisions are always taken unanimously.
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You have to understand that to have a revolution when you are 18 years old is completely different from normal political leaders who were born in a democracy and will die in a democracy and never to have experienced that change. I have seen that change.
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I very often compare relations between states to relations with people. Sometimes we are nicer to those we don't know well, who are not our friends, than we are to our friends, because with our friends we don't need to be nice all the time.
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I have full confidence in the IMF. It is a very strong international institution.
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I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries.
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Let us not forget that the European Community started as a project for peace after the terrible Second World War. And today people take for granted the freedom to travel, to study, to work abroad. And the citizens of one country have almost exactly the same rights as another country.
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You see in times of crisis that extremist forces, populist forces, have a better ground to oversimplify things and to manipulate feelings. Feelings of fear.
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The dynamic of globalisation in financial and economic terms, but also in geopolitical terms, confronts Europeans with a stark choice: live together, share a common destiny and count in the world; or face the prospect of disunity and decline.
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For investor confidence, it is important that there is certainty about the future of Ireland in E.U.
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There's a tendency in many politicians to become inward-looking, more protectionist, more nationalistic and more defensive, in the bad sense of the word.
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My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.
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Growth based on debt is unsustainable, artificial.
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Smart, sustainable, inclusive growth is the key to job-creation and the future prosperity of Europe.
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Usually I don't comment on comments of others.
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Even when governments take the right steps to reform, these can be negatively impacted by events outside their control.