Referendums have always posed a threat when it comes to EU policy, because EU policy is complicated. They're an opportunity for those from all politi….

I believe the people should have the opportunity to have a greater influence on politics with their ideas. We need a new impulse for renewal..

I am a man of parliament, a man of the people. I am not a representative of the executives..

Keeping quiet and letting the others do the talking. That may be Angela Merkel's method, but it's not mine..

The quota idea is a good one, but there are two problems with it. The first is clear: A quota system would also require all European countries to be ….

We are in the middle of a tough, ideological conflict that is being waged across the entire continent. On the one side are those who say that global ….

The EU is an unique project that replaced war with peace, hate with solidarity. Overwhelming emotion for awarding of Nobel prize to EU.

Primary responsibility for Brexit lies with British conservatives, who took an entire continent hostage..

There are surely people in London who would love to play us off against each other. That would be disastrous for the EU..

It was clear to me that the White House's solemn atmosphere would not civilize Trump. But the merciless nepotism with which he conducts politics, in ….

Britain, Europe's second largest economy, a member of the G-7 and the UN Security Council, wants to leave the EU. That weakens us and it weakens Brit….

Before we talk about further accessions, we have to consolidate the European Union internally. People are increasingly losing faith in the EU's effec….

For many people, politics in Brussels and Strasbourg might as well be happening on another planet..

A joint European army is a very far-reaching proposal and it would be difficult to implement. Such initiatives are nevertheless needed..

I cannot guarantee people absolute fairness. I can only promise that I will do everything in my power to secure fairness or create a greater degree o….

But if you constantly insist only on your own interpretation, it isn't long before it seems patronizing..

The problem with us EU politicians is that we approach everything with cool rationality, and then wonder why we don't win people over emotionally..

Solidarity is the fundamental idea of European cooperation. If a country feels itself to be militarily threatened and calls for soldiers, weapons and….

We agree: Brussels can't regulate everything. I'm driven by something else: There are forces in Europe that want to generally give national policy pr….

At the end of the day, men like Donald Trump need to be given that which they themselves dispense: clear messages. I would confront him as clearly an….

Trump has a clear goal: the division of Europe and the destruction of the European domestic market. The fact that Brexit propagandist Nigel Farage wa….