Tag Archives: Jose Manuel Barroso

I very often compare relations between states to relations with people. Sometimes we are nicer to those we don't know well, who are not our friends, than we are to our friends, because with our friends we don't need to be nice all the time. Jose Manuel Barroso

Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong. Jose Manuel Barroso

Financial transaction tax raises problems of competition. Jose Manuel Barroso

I believe that Europe without Britain at the heart will be less reform-driven, less open, less international Europe. Jose Manuel Barroso

The E.U. is founded on the Treaties which apply only to the Member States who have agreed and ratified them. Jose Manuel Barroso

There is no stability without solidarity and no solidarity without stability. Jose Manuel Barroso

I'll put it frankly – Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries. Jose Manuel Barroso

The dynamic of globalisation in financial and economic terms, but also in geopolitical terms, confronts Europeans with a stark choice: live together, share a common destiny and count in the world; or face the prospect of disunity and decline. Jose Manuel Barroso

Germany is the biggest economy of Europe and we need Germany on board for the economic reforms of Europe, including, of course, the deepening of the internal market, resisting protectionism, and supporting further economic policy coordination. Jose Manuel Barroso

You have to understand that to have a revolution when you are 18 years old is completely different from normal political leaders who were born in a democracy and will die in a democracy and never to have experienced that change. I have seen that change. Jose Manuel Barroso