We can't completely rely on the aberrations of history to explain today's European necessities. Future-related issues are no less pressing.

We no longer have the pact from 1997; it was radically amended in 2005 and the Commission is applying this Stability Pact with wisdom and rationality.

The European Union has decades of experience in overcoming crises and has always emerged stronger after.

When it becomes serious, you have to lie.

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.

The person who is ahead in the end will have the advantage.

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