I am for secret, dark debates.

My friendship with Martin [Schulz], by contrast, is completely different in that it goes far beyond politics.

Greece is not a country that can be humiliated. It is a matter of finding an intersection between the reasonable elements of both sides [EU and Greece] which has to be done.

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

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

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

I wouldn't like Greece to stay recession. I do think that everything has to be undertaken to reconnect with growth.