"Juncker is right: it is not the foundations that threaten the union, it is the egotistical political game that hollows out the foundations.The only recipe against that is a reform of EU institutions and electoral process to give power, funding and responsibility to the EU for the few things it is in charge of and keep the majority of functions and the respective responsibility at national level to avoid the blame game and revert to constructive co-operation."
– Miles on Hysteria and hypocrisy in the war on mediocrity

"Asking Apple to pay more tax than it owes is like asking a Michael Schumacher or Real Madrid to please just win less often to make things a bit more fair."
– Manatee on Europe’s crises demand hard talk in Bratislava