With hindsight, it is always easy to blame everyone else.

We must go back to teach Europeans to love Europe.

In politics, there are different categories of friendship. My friendship with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, for example .

But anyone who believes that the eternal issue of war and peace in Europe has been permanently laid to rest could be making a monumental error. The demons haven't been banished; they are merely sleeping, as the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo have shown us.

Anyone who believes that the eternal question of war and peace in Europe is no longer there risks being deeply mistaken.

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.

I believe neither the French nor the Dutch really rejected the constitutional treaty.