Top 20 Jean-Claude Juncker Quotes

From the very beginning, Europe has been not only a success story but also a story of success achieved by learning.

Of course Brexit means that something is wrong in Europe. But Brexit means also that something was wrong in Britain.

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

The U.K. decided to leave the E.U. – Brexit means Brexit.

No, we should not be afraid of the populists; we should embrace those they are fighting.

I have met in my life two big destroyers: Gorbachev, who destroyed the Soviet Union, and Cameron, who destroyed the United Kingdom to some extent, even if there is no wave of Scotland to become independent.

The populists are spreading slogans. We have to offer solutions and answers.

The Luxembourg financial centre is based on several pillars, we are characterised by the breadth of our product range, we are an active participant in the international credit business.

As complicated and complex and as difficult as we are, the unity of Europe is a pre-condition for a better organized world, and if the European Union would fail or decompose, or other members left, the U.S. would have a more difficult role to play in the world.

The European Union has decades of experience in overcoming crises and has always emerged stronger after.

Our idea is to make the U.K. a privileged partner of the E.U.

Europe has to be about more than market, goods, and money.

If we allow Catalonia – and it is none of our business – to separate, others will do the same. I do not want that.

However painful or regrettable Brexit may be, it will not stop the E.U. as it moves to the future; we need to move forward.

My main concern is to protect people from detriment.

Europe must not distance itself from Africa‘s universal ambitions.

I am not a dwarf.

If someone complains about Europe from Monday to Saturday, then nobody is going to believe him on Sunday when he says he is a convinced European.

The populists themselves are dangerous, but they are far more dangerous when the traditional, classic parties adopt their harmful proposals.

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