Kenneth Tynan Quotes

Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.

After choosing monetary union, further political union and workable governance in Europe was always going to be necessary.

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 is a group of countries working together.

Anything that keeps the U.K. close to the E.U. and best of all, in the E.U., would make me personally very happy.

I see us very much at the heart of Europe. We are founding members of the single market; we are founding members of the euro.

I don't want to leave euro or leave the European Union.

If the U.K. wants to leave the E.U., we need to stay in the single market.

You still hear some people speaking as though we could decide whether the Common market existed or not.

Today the main, over-riding purpose of the European Union is different: not to win peace, but to secure prosperity.

The United Kingdom and the European Union will remain indispensable partners of the United States even as they begin negotiating their ongoing relationship to ensure continued stability, security and prosperity for Europe, Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the world.

At the core of the European Union must be, as it is now, the single market. Britain is at the heart of that Single Market, and must remain so.

We were talking about really getting Europe on its feet. It was our hope that there would be a breakdown of trade barriers in Europe first, and then eventually a breakdown internationally, which would help increase trade with Europe.

The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.

This much is true: When we created the euro, it wasn't possible to create a political union along with it. People weren't ready for that. But since then, they've grown more willing to go in that direction. It's a process, one that is sometimes laborious and sometimes slow. But it's important to keep the populations involved.

I'm a great supporter of the European Union. I didn't support entry to the Euro, not because I'm against it in principle but because I didn't think it was economically right for Britain. But that doesn't make me any less pro-European.

'Federalism', in the context of political and media usage in Britain, has come to mean the creation and imposition of a European superstate, one centralised in Brussels.

Integration is the most important asset Europe has, and the key component to European integration is the euro.

I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.

It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.

In order to consolidate the euro we need to harmonise our economic, fiscal and social policies, hence we are going toward greater integration.

To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries.

We believe that the European Union is facing a truly historic choice.

United States of Europe

Germany is the united heart of an ever increasingly united continent.

It is impossible to build Europe on only deregulation ...