Free Movement of Goods Quotes

Globalization

Globalization is the speed of light.

Globalisation is not remotely new; it has been occurring, at differing rates and with differing degrees of scale, for centuries.

We were able to sign free trade agreement with Europe at a time when people tend to be closing off.

Globalization is the central reality of our time.

I think globalization is a great thing. And now a lot of people complain about globalization; a lot of people don't like, you know, the globalize of the concept, the idea of the results. I think the globalization is a great idea and to create a lot of jobs.

Globalisation feels like a runaway train, out of control.

I believe that we will benefit more by globalisation.

The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels.

Taken slightly historically, the turning point in the E.U. was actually the Single European Act, the Thatcher/Maastricht-era stuff, which was turning the E.U. into very much a market system.

There should be no economic border at all between the North and South.

Globilization is here to stay.

Globalization is the process by which markets integrate worldwide.

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

There is no access to the market without budgetary contributions... and without respect for the four freedoms of the E.U.

We cannot turn back the tides of globalization any more than King Knute [995-1035] could turn back the tides.

I do think Brexit vote speaks to the ongoing changes and challenges that are raised by globalisation.

The most difficult part of Brexit will be to figure out the trade regime between the U.K. and the rest of the E.U. because the level of trade integration between the members of the E.U. is the deepest in the world and integrates regulations that govern how products and services are produced and sold within the E.U.

By remaining inside a customs union and the single market in a transitional phase we would be certain that goods and services could continue to flow between the E.U. and the U.K. without tariffs, customs checks or additional red tape.

Globalization can be a great opportunity.

I strongly suspect that there would be a positive economic advantage to the U.K. in leaving the single market.

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.

Turkey has a customs union with the E.U. - it still means there are checks on the border between Turkey and the E.U.

Globalization is a great thing, but it needs a legal framework in which to blossom.

The EU represents a highly developed system for mutual interference in each other’s domestic affairs right down to beer and sausages.