Jean-Claude Juncker – Luxembourg
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.
Jun 9, 2025
Democracy
Gösta Bagge – Sweden
Democracy undermines the interests of the whole, leads to demagogy and bossism, and threatens the common good.
Stjepan Radić – Croatia
We know that Athens was democratic and Sparta was aristocratic. That's what we learn in school, because that is how it really seems. Until we remember that Athens also had its slaves, just as Sparta had its helots.
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.
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.