Economic Integration Quotes

There is no one trade agreement in the world that has country-specific content. It doesn't exist. Content has to be measured regionally.

I can confirm that Poland should become a eurozone country, and not just because of the treaties that have been signed, but because I consider it of strategic interest both for Poland and the E.U.

When the whole world is globalized, you're going to be able to set fire to the whole thing with a single match.

International economic cooperation has delivered benefits to the United States and other countries that would have been impossible to attain otherwise.

Globalization is very difficult to understand and almost impossible to regulate.

Specifically, the U.S. holds strength. Its own context makes it a very competitive country, but I believe that if we recognize how interdependent the U.S. with its neighbors from the North and the South, we are part of NAFTA, a trade agreement.

Globalization is the speed of light.

We had much freer trade in the 19th century. We have much less globalization now than we did then.

Globalization

Globalization cannot take shape without the speed of light.

For some time, Scotland's greatest exports to England have included whisky and Scottish MPs. Or, in the case of Charles Kennedy, both. All these links, politically, economically, culturally, are part of my Union. Would Glasgow's brilliant Commonwealth Games or the Edinburgh Festival be any better for our being independent? I doubt it.

I am for joining a free trade zone. The European Union is not such zone, but a zone of raging bureaucracy which stears every hectolitre of wine, and every tone of beef.

Globalization today is a globalization of markets, not a globalization of democracy.

It's political glue inside Europe to keep it together - the euro is the best thing going for it since the creation of the common market.

No one can be in any doubt that Britain is becoming more like Europe, though few in an increasingly economically illiterate media seem to realise it.

Europe will be the most important economic power in the world.

The American multinational companies made millions and millions of dollars from globalization.

Globalization - and I think we share this conviction - is that globalization needs to be shaped politically, it needs to be given a human face, but we cannot allow to fall back into plagued globalization times.

The participation of our country in the eurozone is a guarantee for the country's monetary stability. It is a driver of financial prosperity.

More and more of the Taiwanese economy is connected with the mainland. There are more and more exchanges taking place. There's no reason to doubt that over a period of ten years or so, or maybe more, the conditions of life on the two sides of the Taiwan Strait will become more comparable, and the dialogue on the political level therefore easier.

What we should be doing in the EU as a whole is more economic integration in the single market, rather than less.

There is no question that our security and prosperity will be increasingly tied to the Asia Pacific. If America doesn't set the rules of the road for trade in this region, other nations will.

The Declaration on Strategic Partnership between India and Russia signed in October 2000 became a truly historic step. The developments in the first decade of the 21 century confirmed that it was a particularly significant and timely step.

At the time of the formation of the euro, I would say most American economists said that's not a good idea; that's not a currency area that makes sense. And the answer from Europe was, 'How is Missouri and Mississippi a currency area?' But the flaw in that was not recognizing the importance of mobility.

My grandfather was the architect behind NAFTA, and that has created so much economic opportunity, not only in our country, but in Latin America.