Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.

Growth based on debt is unsustainable, artificial.

I am a very committed European.

A new state, if it wants to join the European Union, has to apply to become a member of the European Union like any state.

What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open.

The E.U. is founded on the Treaties which apply only to the Member States who have agreed and ratified them.

Let us not forget that the European Community started as a project for peace after the terrible Second World War. And today people take for granted the freedom to travel, to study, to work abroad. And the citizens of one country have almost exactly the same rights as another country.