No, we should not be afraid of the populists; we should embrace those they are fighting.
Europe must not distance itself from Africa's universal ambitions.
This was a continent of divisions, of wars, of conflicts, of divergences, differences... When I am in Asia, in Africa, people admire what we have managed to do. Europe is beautiful seen from other continents.
The populists are spreading slogans. We have to offer solutions and answers.
Being described as a stupid bureaucrat with no link to representative democracy is difficult to take.
I have met in my life two big destroyers: Gorbachev, who destroyed the Soviet Union, and Cameron, who destroyed the United Kingdom to some extent, even if there is no wave of Scotland to become independent.
Forgetting the importance of national landscapes, cultures, national behaviours, reactions, and reflexes is a big, big mistake.
I am against nationalists, but I am very much in favour of patriots.
If someone complains about Europe from Monday to Saturday, then nobody is going to believe him on Sunday when he says he is a convinced European.
However painful or regrettable Brexit may be, it will not stop the E.U. as it moves to the future; we need to move forward.
Europe has to be about more than market, goods, and money.
We shouldn't persuade people that we can simply conjure up the sun and the moon: at the most, we can deliver a telescope.
If we allow Catalonia - and it is none of our business - to separate, others will do the same. I do not want that.
I am strictly against a European superstate.
