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You can't deepen the European Union against the wishes of the European countries.

It is not acceptable that European Union countries are divided into those who give and those who take.

I completely agree with Helmut Kohl. I am not an advocate of the "United States of Europe," nor am I an integration fanatic.

Yesterday's shining heroes of Brexit have become the sorrowful heroes of today.

The Greek nation has to be respected. I am not in the camp of those who openly want to humiliate Greece.

We do not attract Russian money to Luxembourg with high interest rates.

I put my money on Brexit. The EU Financial Stability Commissioner, Jonathan Hill from Britain, still owes me a pound.

In the highest government office, you have to be ready to bow out at any time, otherwise you are not a free individual anymore.

After 30 years in Brussels, I can tell you: The relationship between the Commission and the Parliament has probably never been as good as it is now.

Anyone who believes that the eternal question of war and peace in Europe is no longer there risks being deeply mistaken.

I don't think in national categories. For me it [policy] is about concepts and substance.

When the going gets tough, you have to lie.

I believe neither the French nor the Dutch really rejected the constitutional treaty.

I'm not deaf and the Commission isn't operating in a parallel world of legal texts.

I don't think Spain will need any kind of external support.

We must go back to teach Europeans to love Europe.

I am in favor of the European institutions being led for the next two-and-a-half years as they have been thus far. We need stability.

I'm not suffering from withdrawal symptoms. I would say that I have a balanced state of mind.

We can't completely rely on the aberrations of history to explain today's European necessities. Future-related issues are no less pressing.

Europe is a democracy and differences of opinion are part of it.

When it becomes serious, you have to lie.

I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious ... I am for secret, dark debates

[Boris]Johnson, [Nigel] Farage, they are retro-nationalists, not patriots. Patriots don't abandon ship when the going gets tough. They stay on board.

I wouldn't like Greece to stay recession. I do think that everything has to be undertaken to reconnect with growth.

I would have thought that they [Boris Johnson and Nigel Farag] would have had a plan,instead of developing a plan they are leaving the boat.

You can consider this carved in stone: I rule out becoming Herman Van Rompuy's successor.

The person who is ahead in the end will have the advantage.

I am not a dwarf.

I'm always quite amazed that people in Europe become unnerved when two institutions or two people have different views.

We all know what to do, but we don't know how to get re-elected once we have done it.

For my generation, the monetary union has always been about forging peace.

I notice with a certain sense of regret that far too many Europeans are returning to a regional and national mindset.

The problem is: When two governments or institutions in Europe hold differing opinions, it is immediately a crisis.

I am for secret, dark debates.

I am chilled by the realization of how similar circumstances in Europe in 2013 are to those of 100 years ago.

God understands more about the financial markets than many who write about them.

Those who are saying that Mario Draghi is in the camp of those trying to push Greece outside the Euroarea, are wrong.

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

My main concern is to protect people from detriment.