Quotes by Frans Timmermans - Page 2

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.
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Judiciary
Treaties
Obligations
Violating
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Responsible politicians should never indulge in nostalgia - it is too much of a distraction at a time when a rapidly changing world throws up so many challenges, when we need to keep our wits about us.
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Distraction
Indulge
Nostalgia
Rapidly
Throws
Wits
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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.
Frans Timmermans /
Clubs
Great Character People
Associations
Millions Of People
Weaker
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I'm just one generation between someone who cheered when Germans were burning and someone who doesn't even know that there is a border. That's a miracle - really is a miracle - and it gets me really emotional.
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Burning
Just One
Border
Germans
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Nationalism makes us weak because its eternal seeking of enemies, its disdain of others, its need to feel superior makes cooperation with other nations to collectively guarantee our freedom and security much more difficult.
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Cooperation
Disdain
Eternal
Nationalism
Seeking
Weak
Collectively
Enemies
Guarantee
Superior
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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.
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Constitutions
Ignore
Oppose
Upheld
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The main actors on the world stage are the size of continents, be they nation states or voluntary groupings of nation states such as the E.U. Nostalgia can help us ignore these harsh realities for a while, but it will not make them go away.
Frans Timmermans /
Continents
Harsh
Nostalgia
World Stage
Go Away
Ignore
Realities
Voluntary
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The problem with UKIP and the extreme right - Mr. Le Pen, Wilders - they are really good at making an analysis of the problem. And they immediately go completely overboard in providing a solution that would never work and is morally completely unacceptable.
Frans Timmermans /
Analysis
Overboard
Providing
Work Good Never
Extreme
Pen
Solution
The Problem With
Unacceptable
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The German car industry has a clear vision of the necessity of stability in the continent that goes beyond selling cars. For Germany, the economy is an instrument in a much wider issue of stability in continental Europe and overcoming the mistakes of the past.
Frans Timmermans /
Clear Vision
Germany
Overcoming
Selling
Stability
German
Continent
Instrument
Wider
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I think the E.U. means different things to different countries. In the U.K., traditionally, if you know anything about the U.K.'s history and its relationship with the E.U., it is about the common market; it's about being part of something that is good for jobs and growth.
Frans Timmermans /
Different Countries
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For all its shortcomings, European co-operation and integration has created an understanding of shared destiny. We no longer point guns at each other; we fight it out at a conference table. And we will continue to do so when the U.K. is no longer a member state but, I hope, still a friend.
Frans Timmermans /
Integration
Understanding
Friend
Co-Operation
Guns
Conference
Fight
Each
Longer
Member
Point
Shared
Table
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The argument that won the Brexit campaign is the one that said take back control... which is another way of saying we want to control our destinies again. This is an existential issue for the whole of Europe, not just for the U.K., because this sentiment is not limited to the United Kingdom.
Frans Timmermans /
Another Way
Existential
United Kingdom
Brexit
Destinies
Sentiment
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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.
Frans Timmermans /
Comprehensive
Convince
Dutch
Migration
Valuable
We Cannot
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The issue of migration has played a key role in all of our member states, wherever we are. Only we, as a European Union, can convince our citizens that we do have an answer to this - not deny migration, not pretend you can solve it by building fences and walls, not pretending we can solve it by letting everybody in.
Frans Timmermans /
Convince
Deny
European Union
Migration
Pretend
Fences
Letting
Walls
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If Europe does not understand that our sister continent, Africa, a stone's throw away, is going to face a demographic explosion, if there is no real economic and political restructuring, if we do not understand we have a collective responsibility for Africa, there is not a fence high enough to stop people coming to Europe.
Frans Timmermans /
Fence
Restructuring
Collective
Continent
Demographic
Explosion
Stone
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The Treaty of Lisbon gave the European parliament a stronger role as co-legislator and the European Council its own president. Furthermore, the treaty introduced checks on subsidiarity - the concept that decisions should be taken as close as possible to the citizens - in an effort to cut back on unnecessary rules and regulations.
Frans Timmermans /
Checks
Council
Parliament
Unnecessary
Furthermore
Introduced
Regulations
Treaty
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This is the game of those who deny climate change or who deny the need for sustainability. They say, 'They are going to take everything away from us. They are going to take our cars away from us. They are going to take our steaks from us. They are going to take all the things that make life nice away from us. So let's not go there.'
Frans Timmermans /
Climate Change
Deny
Sustainability
Life Change Game
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