Frans Timmermans Quotes

The issue of migration has played a key role in all of our member states, wherever we are. Only we, as a European Union, can convince our citizens that we do have an answer to this - not deny migration, not pretend you can solve it by building fences and walls, not pretending we can solve it by letting everybody in.

I think people are justifiably fed up of hearing migration talked about at the E.U. level but not seeing anything happen in practice.

If Macron thinks there is no immigration crisis in Italy, he should open his doors to the 9,000 migrants France agreed to welcome from Italy in accordance with signed European agreements.

Immigration is a legitimate concern, but it's not a good reason to leave the E.U.

The world's poor have discovered that the E.U. (that's the country we live in, no point pretending there's anywhere called Britain any more) has absolutely no clue how to stop determined immigrants.

The U. S.'s moral responsibility to accept immigrants is not unlimited.

It's great that Trump has engendered a heated debate over illegal immigration and our open borders.

I do not have the slightest bit of confidence in the European Union to protect the borders of the European Union.

Whatever threats Remain may continue to fire at us, they cannot answer the simple and most basic proposition: that only by leaving the European Union can we control the numbers coming to our country.

The influx of migrants must be stopped.

Before we kill Schengen, we have to make Dublin work.

I got to tell you, when I wrote 'Adios America,' I thought there was a 10 percent chance of saving the country.

Schengen cannot survive without the most dramatic reform, and the external borders of Europe must be rapidly strengthened.

Soros wants to fill Italy and Europe with migrants.

We need to fight to prove to people that it is possible to form an E.U. migration policy that is in line with the Hungarian national interest.

If Europe's outer border is not blocked off, it makes no sense to speak of quotas.

The migratory phenomenon exists, and Europe will have to face it together. The only alternative is a 'beggar-thy-neighbor' solution, in which countries try to load the problem off on their neighbors.

We cannot allow the indiscriminate entry of all those who come here only because they wanted to come.

If anyone in the E.U. thinks Italy should keep being a landing point and refugee camp, they have misunderstood.

There is a mass of immigrants, a million of them without work. We will stop this invasion.

Regarding the visa-free regime, it has undoubtedly become a problem for the European Union, above all in terms of its capacity to reach agreements.

Within the E.U., in a wider context, people are increasingly recognising the need to prevent the abuse of free movement.

Immigration is a sensitive topic.

I mean there are many, many people in all sorts of different countries who don't have a great life, who are subject to injustice. Are we obliged to take all of them who come here? I think the answer is 'Not necessarily.'

One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.