1             Each enlargement [of the EU] brings us new neighbors. In the past many of these neighbors ended up becoming candidates for accession themselves. I do not deny that this process has worked very well. But we cannot go on enlarging forever. We cannot water down the European political project and turn the European Union into just a free trade area on a continental scale. (Romano Prodi)

2             In the centre of our movement [for European integration] stands the idea of a Charter of Human Rights, guarded by freedom and sustained by law. (-Winston Churchill, 1948)

3             An impotent ruin of an idea based upon the religion of Human Rights and the nihilistic logic of an infantile and entitled population. (Éric Zemmour, Le Figaro)

4             Europe is “a kind of great republic divided into several states, some monarchical, the others mixed, but all corresponding with one another. They all have the same religious foundation, even if divided into several confessions. They all have the same principle of public law and politics, unknown in other parts of the world.” (Voltaire, c.1750)

5             “ Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.” (H.A.L. Fisher, 1939)

6             “Europe is not based on a common language, culture and values… Europe is a result of plans. It is in fact a classic Utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a program whose inevitable destiny is failure; only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt.” (Margaret Thatcher, 2002)