The majority of decisions in Europe are done by unanimity. That's why it is important to be to have good relations with all parts.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together.
There are many conflicting interests in Europe.
There have been major disagreements within the European Union.
So yes, European decision making is not pretty. But it does work.
The politics of Europe is unimaginative and bureaucratic.
Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations.
Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that - more of a deeper political union.
Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in foreign and security policy. We have a leadership problem because we are still 27 different members who have still not decided on how to work with each other based on what we used to call a European constitution.
Europe must be understood and controlled by its citizens.
We've managed to find a way of making decisions that prevents conflict arising - there has been no war between European members at any point in the last 70 years.
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