Frans Timmermans Quotes

If nationalism makes us poor, weak, and morally insecure, how can it claim to be patriotic? I maintain that nationalists are unpatriotic.
If the E.U. is to survive... it is based on the fact that for every community that belongs in Europe, there is a place in Europe.
If the law does not give you what you want, you can oppose the law, you can work to change the law, but you cannot ignore the law. So it is fundamental that the constitutions of every one of our member states are upheld and respected.
If there's no future for Jews in Europe, there's no future for Europe.
If we do not counter the argument that most radical nationlists use, which is, 'To protect is to be protectionist,' if we don't counter that argument, all of our economies will suffer.
If we put our policies in the right order, we have a sustainable society without lowering but even increasing our levels of wellbeing.
If you believe that through putting the judiciary under political control you can make it a better judiciary, you are wrong, and you are violating your own obligations under European treaties.
If you look at European societies since the financial crisis began in 2008, with very, very few exceptions, the differences between rich and poor have increased, and sometimes hugely.
If you understand that we need a comprehensive approach to the migration issue, and only at European level, will this comprehensive approach be valuable and work. If we cannot convince our member states and citizens of that, then we will be in the same situation as the Dutch citizens were in 1581.
If you want to maintain the unique character of our sport in Europe, which is of great importance to millions of people, you need to be able to put associations in a position to protect the weaker clubs.
In a free Europe... the system of power lies on three pillars. These are democracy, rule of law, and human rights. It's impossible to use one against the other.
Is it not in human nature sometimes, based on the facts that you now know, to reconsider?
Is wellbeing only economic growth? Only salaries? Or is wellbeing also being able to breathe clean air and drink clean water?
It has become routine for national politicians to blame Europe. When something works, they claim it as their success. When something doesn't work, then Europe is to blame.
It is a duty for any government to uphold the rule of law, and this sometimes requires the proportionate use of force.
Let's be clear: a nationalist is not a patriot.
Look at what the divisiveness of Brexit has done to the U.K.
My parents married in 1959 and came to Amsterdam on honeymoon. That was a huge thing, event, for them. Now my children fly off for the weekend to Riga, Prague, or Barcelona.
Nationalism is like alcoholism: a short period of exaltation followed by a long period of headaches.
Nationalism makes us poor because its Siamese twin, protectionism, will destroy the internal market and disrupt international trade.
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Frans Timmermans
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