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Frans Timmermans
Frans Timmermans
Dutch Politician
Born: May 6, 1961
Europe European Good Law Will You
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Nationalism makes us poor because its Siamese twin, protectionism, will destroy the internal market and disrupt international trade. Frans Timmermans
Will Nationalism Market Destroy Protectionism Because Trade Makes Poor Us Internal International International Trade Twin Disrupt
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. Frans Timmermans
Fly Parents Honeymoon Married Weekend Prague Came Off Huge Huge Thing Children Them Barcelona Event Now Thing Amsterdam
If children knew what the effects are of using single-use plastic straws for drinking sodas or whatever, they might reconsider and use paper straws or no straws at all. Frans Timmermans
Drinking Whatever Paper Reconsider Knew Effects Children Might Use Plastic Using
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
Life Game Change Car Nice Our Everything Say Those Take Make Climate Climate Change Go Deny Going Sustainability Us Who They Say Away Things Need
It is a duty for any government to uphold the rule of law, and this sometimes requires the proportionate use of force. Frans Timmermans
Government Law Sometimes Duty Rule Rule Of Law Force Uphold Any Requires Use
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
Saying Argument Control Sentiment Back Our Way Destinies Kingdom Take Another Because Another Way Limited Said Issue Existential Campaign Won Just Want Which Again Brexit Europe Whole United United Kingdom
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
People Political Responsibility Collective Face Sister Enough Our High Restructuring Economic Throw Demographic Understand Does Real Continent Coming Fence Stone Going Stop Africa Explosion Europe Away
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
Vision Car Mistakes Past Clear Clear Vision Economy Beyond Overcoming Instrument Industry Continent Continental Issue German Selling Germany Goes Stability Much Europe Wider Necessity
Is it not in human nature sometimes, based on the facts that you now know, to reconsider? Frans Timmermans
Nature You Sometimes Human Nature Reconsider Facts Know Human Now Based
We need to be able to answer not yesterday's challenges but to tomorrow's challenges. Frans Timmermans
Challenges Tomorrow Yesterday Able Answer Need
Being part of the E.U. in Poland means that for the first time in a millennium, nobody disputes Poland's borders, and it brought a level of freedom that Poland has never known before. Frans Timmermans
Time Freedom First Before Borders Brought Never Part Poland Nobody Known First Time Being Means Millennium Disputes Level
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
Good Relationship History You Think Market Jobs About Something Part Countries Know Common Being Different Anything Different Countries Means Different Things Growth Things
The U.K. is leaving the E.U. but not Europe. Frans Timmermans
Leaving Europe
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
World Will Go Away Nation Stage States Harsh Main Voluntary Make Continents Go Size Nostalgia While Realities Them Us Ignore Help Actor Away World Stage
Since when is politics consistent? Frans Timmermans
Politics Consistent Since
If there's no future for Jews in Europe, there's no future for Europe. Frans Timmermans
Future Jews No Future Europe
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. Frans Timmermans
Community Every Fact Survive Place To Survive Europe Based Belongs
I want Europe to go forward, not backward. Frans Timmermans
Backward Go Want Europe Forward
The absolute low point for me in more than 30 years of professional life was the Brexit vote. Frans Timmermans
Life Me Vote More Absolute Point Years Than Low Low Point Brexit Professional Professional Life
I find it unspeakably sad that the United Kingdom has voted to leave the European Union. Frans Timmermans
Sad Find Kingdom Voted Leave Union European European Union United United Kingdom
I think in Trump's view of the world, when the other person loses, he wins. Frans Timmermans
World Think Other Wins He Loses Trump Person View
While, of course, you cannot discriminate between nationals of member states, access to the labour market does not mean automatic access to social security systems. Frans Timmermans
You Market States Member Systems Security Between Course Access Does Discriminate Labour Automatic Cannot While Mean Social Social Security
Britain can get far better results if it engages with Europe than standing on the sidelines and saying that Europe should change. Frans Timmermans
Saying Change Better Sidelines Results Than Get Far Should Standing Europe Britain
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. Frans Timmermans
Success Work Blame Become National Politicians Claim Something Then Europe Works Routine
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. Frans Timmermans
You Obligations Better Political Judiciary Own Control Believe Through Wrong Putting Make Your European Violating Treaties
Given the amount of money circulating in the sport, European taxpayers and supporters are entitled to know how their clubs are being managed. Frans Timmermans
Money Entitled Given Supporters Know Sport How Being Clubs Taxpayers European Amount
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