You can't deepen the European Union against the wishes of the European countries.

I don't think Spain will need any kind of external support.

We must also take this opportunity to learn from the situation [of Brexit], just as we learned from the refugee and debt crises.

There is a distorted perception of what goes on in Brussels. No one reports on the Commission taking a hundred initiatives from its predecessor off the table in order to shift competencies back to member state governments.

Those who are saying that Mario Draghi is in the camp of those trying to push Greece outside the Euroarea, are wrong.

There is a proposal to divide the currency zone into a north and a south euro. There is also the idea of setting up a core monetary union in the middle of Europe. I disapprove of these debates. Instead, we should devote all of our efforts to supplementing the monetary union with a political union.

Article 50 governs the exit from the European Union and here there can also be no renegotiation.