I very often compare relations between states to relations with people. Sometimes we are nicer to those we don't know well, who are not our friends, than we are to our friends, because with our friends we don't need to be nice all the time.
From Jose Manuel Barroso
What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open.
I believe that Europe without Britain at the heart will be less reform-driven, less open, less international Europe.
I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries.
You have to understand that to have a revolution when you are 18 years old is completely different from normal political leaders who were born in a democracy and will die in a democracy and never to have experienced that change. I have seen that change.
There's a tendency in many politicians to become inward-looking, more protectionist, more nationalistic and more defensive, in the bad sense of the word.
I say to my friends, 'Don't just listen to the vuvuzelas; look at who scores the goals.' And this is the important thing.
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.
The Eurogroup decisions are always taken unanimously.
I don't know why my son was born conservative.
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