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Jean-Claude Juncker – Luxembourg | EU Values: Under the Microscope Democracy is about compromise. And the right compromise makes winners out of everyone. A more united Union should see compromise, not as something negative, but as the art of bridging differences.

Jean-Claude Juncker – Luxembourg
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Alda Merini – Italy | EU Values: Under the Microscope The degree of freedom of a man is measured by the intensity of his dreams.

Alda Merini – Italy
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#EUvalues #Freedom #EUfreedom

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Napoleon Bonaparte – France | EU Values: Under the Microscope Famous people lose their dignity when you look closely at them.

Napoleon Bonaparte – France
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#EUvalues #HumanDignity #EUHumanDignity

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Weekly Reflection – Bernie Kaussler | EU Values: Under the Microscope This Week’s Quotes

Weekly Reflection – Bernie Kaussler
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#EUvalues #Reflection

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Kaja Kallas – Estonia | EU Values: Under the Microscope Defending human rights and democracy is not only a Treaty obligation but a strategic interest and an investment in peace and prosperity.

Kaja Kallas – Estonia
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#EUHumanRights #HumanRights #EUHumanRights

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Gustav Radbruch – Germany | EU Values: Under the Microscope Democracy is certainly a valuable asset, but the rule of law is like our daily bread, like water to drink, and like air to breathe, and the best thing about democracy is precisely that it is the only...

Gustav Radbruch – Germany
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#EUvalues #RuleOfLaw #EURuleOfLaw

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Bodil Begtrup – Denmark | EU Values: Under the Microscope If we want the women of the world to take an active part in the affairs of the world and of their communities, we must do more than give them equal status with men and urge them on to active public life.

Bodil Begtrup – Denmark
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#EUvalues #Equality #Equality

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Gösta Bagge – Sweden | EU Values: Under the Microscope Democracy undermines the interests of the whole, leads to demagogy and bossism, and threatens the common good.

Gösta Bagge – Sweden
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Joseph Roth – Austria | EU Values: Under the Microscope There was the word “freedom”! A word as immeasurable as the sky, as unreachable by human hands as a star. Yet created by the lust of men, who have always and again sought to grasp it, and soaked in...

Joseph Roth – Austria
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#EUvalues #Freedom #EUfreedom

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Bernard Bolzano – Czechia | EU Values: Under the Microscope True cheerfulness not only does not interfere with human dignity, but is also an essential condition for its perfection.

Bernard Bolzano – Czechia
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Weekly Reflection – Jessica Adolino | EU Values: Under the Microscope This Week’s Quotes

Weekly Reflection – Jessica Adolino
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#EUvalues #Reflection

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Sanna Marin – Finland | EU Values: Under the Microscope We have built our society by including everyone, and by placing human rights, fundamental freedoms and equality at the very centre.

Sanna Marin – Finland
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#EUHumanRights #HumanRights #EUHumanRights

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Slavoj Žižek – Slovenia | EU Values: Under the Microscope Human rights ultimately are simply the right to violate the Ten Commandments.

Slavoj Žižek – Slovenia
Human rights ultimately are simply the right to violate the Ten Commandments.
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Dalia Grybauskaite – Lithuania | EU Values: Under the Microscope Time and time again we have no courage to enforce the rules that we ourselves create. We draw red lines in the sand and then pretend they don’t exist. This has to change.

Dalia Grybauskaite – Lithuania
Time and time again we have no courage to enforce the rules that we ourselves create. We draw red lines in the sand and then pretend they don’t exist. This has to change.
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Seneca – Spain | EU Values: Under the Microscope Death equalizes everyone: we are born unequal, we die equal.

Seneca – Spain
Death equalizes everyone: we are born unequal, we die equal.
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Constantinos Ioannou – Cyprus | EU Values: Under the Microscope Democracy is not an abstract notion. It is a force driven by the people to bring prosperity and quality in their lives.

Constantinos Ioannou – Cyprus
Democracy is not an abstract notion. It is a force driven by the people to bring prosperity and quality in their lives.
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Charles Michel – Belgium | EU Values: Under the Microscope Europe means freedom, tolerance, openness, diversity, respect, innovation, creativity, dynamism. Europe is also about solidarity and unity. Europe, it’s you, it’s us, it’s all of us together.

Charles Michel – Belgium
Europe means freedom, tolerance, openness, diversity, respect, innovation, creativity, dynamism. Europe is also about solidarity and unity. Europe, it’s you, it’s us, it’s all of us together.
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Elie Wiesel – Romania | EU Values: Under the Microscope When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant.

Elie Wiesel – Romania
When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant.
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Weekly Reflection – John Hulsey | EU Values: Under the Microscope Among the quotes for this week, the statement from Hungary’s Viktor Orbán jumps off the page. “If we turn against the institutions of multi-party parliamentary democracy, then something else will...

Weekly Reflection – John Hulsey
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Mary Robinson – Ireland | EU Values: Under the Microscope The aim of human rights . . . is to move beyond the design and drawing-board phase, to move beyond thinking and talking about the foundation stones – to laying those foundation stones, inch by inch,...

Mary Robinson – Ireland
The aim of human rights . . . is to move beyond the design and drawing-board phase, to move beyond thinking and talking about the foundation stones – to laying those foundation stones, inch by inch, together.
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Hugo Krabbe – Netherlands | EU Values: Under the Microscope We no longer live under the authority of persons . . . but under the rule of laws. This is the essence of the modern idea of the state.

Hugo Krabbe – Netherlands
We no longer live under the authority of persons . . . but under the rule of laws. This is the essence of the modern idea of the state.
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Decision - 2025/2745 - EN - EUR-LexLog inEnglish

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EP establishes a "European Order of Merit." Will "honour the achievements of individuals who have made a significant contribution to European integration or to the promotion and defence of the values enshrined in the Treaties." Great chance to promote/consolidate all Article 2 values.

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Ināra Mūrniece – Latvia | EU Values: Under the Microscope Justice and social equality must be like sunlight that shines equally brightly over those who strut on polished hardwood floors and those who tread uneven cobblestones. This is the way to build public...

Ināra Mūrniece – Latvia
Justice and social equality must be like sunlight that shines equally brightly over those who strut on polished hardwood floors and those who tread uneven cobblestones. This is the way to build public trust and strengthen the state.
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Viktor Orbán – Hungary | EU Values: Under the Microscope If we turn against the institutions of multi-party parliamentary democracy, then something else will happen in Hungary instead… Every other system apart from parliamentary democracy necessarily leads...

Viktor Orbán – Hungary
If we turn against the institutions of multi-party parliamentary democracy, then something else will happen in Hungary instead… Every other system apart from parliamentary democracy necessarily leads to the loss of individual freedom.
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Ventseslav Konstantinov – Bulgaria | EU Values: Under the Microscope Freedom of thought makes unnecessary the thought of freedom.

Ventseslav Konstantinov – Bulgaria
Freedom of thought makes unnecessary the thought of freedom.
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José Manuel Barroso – Portugal | EU Values: Under the Microscope Europe is fundamentally about values. It is primarily about a worldview that gives a central place to the individual, to the human person, and to respect for human dignity.

José Manuel Barroso – Portugal
Europe is fundamentally about values. It is primarily about a worldview that gives a central place to the individual, to the human person, and to respect for human dignity.
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Weekly Reflection – John Scherpereel | EU Values: Under the Microscope

Weekly Reflection – John Scherpereel
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