If Spain Goes Under, Italy Will Come

This Is Certainly Not The First Case In Which A Merger Approved In One Place Hasn't Gone Through In The Other. There Was A Case Last Year Where The Merger Between Two Eu Companies Was Approved Here And Blocked In The U.s.

There Is No Government In Europe Where Ministers Go Through That Kind Of Confirmation Process, Which In Fact Is Modeled On The Way The U.s. Cabinet Members Are Confirmed.

I Know That Speaking With Parties, Which I Do, But Not Very Often, Is Seen By Many As A Contamination.

If Governments Let Themselves Be Fully Bound By The Decisions Of Their Parliaments Without Protecting Their Own Freedom To Act, A Breakup Of Europe Would Be A More Probable Outcome Than Deeper Integration.

I Believe That Reforms Will Not Really Take Hold If They Do Not Gradually Come Into The Culture Of The People.