Frans Timmermans

Politician

1961-05-06

Quotes by Frans Timmermans

• The European Union should come up with a solid plan to help especially Poland and Slovakia make this transition away from coal.

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• Protectionism has never been an answer, will never be an answer. We need trade. We need trade agreements worldwide.

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• Nationalism makes us poor because its Siamese twin, protectionism, will destroy the internal market and disrupt international trade.

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• If nationalism makes us poor, weak, and morally insecure, how can it claim to be patriotic? I maintain that nationalists are unpatriotic.

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• 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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• 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.

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• Is wellbeing only economic growth? Only salaries? Or is wellbeing also being able to breathe clean air and drink clean water?

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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.

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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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