Jean-Claude Juncker Quotes

We must build a kind of United States of Europe.

When my father began his work in the 1970s it was a very different EU. I pay tribute to what he did. But it has now become a very different proposition: the United States of Europe.

The next Euro-elections will be a step towards a United States of Europe

There is no future for the people of Europe other than in union.

I'm against the European Union, but I am very much in favor of Europe.

I am a committed European; a united Europe is Romania's future.

I said, yet again, for Germany, Europe is not only indispensable, it is part and parcel of our identity. We've always said German unity, European unity and integration, that's two parts of one and the same coin. But we want, obviously, to boost our competitiveness.

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.

I declare myself an Austrian and a European. A united Europe will be a peaceful Europe.

Without Britain, Europe would remain only a torso.

We are part of the community of Europe, and we must do our duty as such.

We have to reconcile Europeans with Europe.

The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.

It is always said that Europe is a project of the elite. That's incorrect.

Europe has never existed. One must genuinely create Europe.

I am going to leave the future of Europe to the Europeans.

A united Europe is our Continent's only chance to avoid falling off the world's radar. The heads of government of Germany, France and the United Kingdom also know that their voice is only heard internationally because they speak through the megaphone of the European Union.

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

You can't build Europe against anyone.

We need less theoretical debate and more practical application and acknowledgment of what Europe can and does do so that it is brought home to people in a relevant way.

I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.

I have been supporting the European Union, but we are still a work in progress. We have to become more of a United States of Europe. We should talk about electing a president of the E.U., rather than having one selected from the heads of government.

In the light of these treaties we are Europeans only.

United States of Europe

I am not anti-European.