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Express their concern. but it comes back to the point that, in the end, you have to decide, if you're in the british government, what's more important, a big row — i mean, i'm not belittling it — a very significant fallout with the european union over the treaty, or peace and stability in northern ireland. which is more important? and in london, frankly, they've decided that they have to safeguard peace and stability in northern ireland first. we believe the two are compatible and the proof is that we agreed on this protocol as the way exactly to protect the good friday agreement, so we ne...

Foursquare behind giving ukraine candidate status. you're portuguese. your prime minister is still deeply sceptical. has he now changed his mind? i don't speak for portugal here, but let me be very clear about one point. what we are... the message we are passing to our ukrainian friends and, for that matter, for our moldovan friends as well, is a very clear one, and to the georgian ones as well — you belong to the european family. and this is the most important political message you can send. on top of that, the european commission, which is responsible under the treaties to provide an opini...

Is to say, "i need to redraft everything." if you see this as a fight where there has to be a winner and a loser, maybe. but maybe you should say to yourself, you know, "i'm a very experienced diplomat," you've been in this game in the eu commission and elsewhere for decades — you know that, in the end, there is always a compromise out there somewhere. if one takes the british proposals now, with the red and the green channels, doing away with a lot of the oversight which you guys now demand on the trade between great britain and northern ireland, if you look at their proposals, look at your...

European union, 23 will be members of nato. so there's an almost total overlapping between the two. that's my point — nato calls the shots here, not the european union. let me say about what president putin achieved. reinforcement of nato, strengthening of the transatlantic alliance, our cooperation with the us, our cooperation with the uk in this field, which is...should be...should inspire us, by the way, to deal with other issues and the unity inside the union. so we have strengthened our mechanisms. on eu—nato, my point is very simple — one complements the other. there is no oppositi...

It impacts the one we want to impact upon — the adversary if you want — but it impacts ourselves as well, impacts you as it impacts in the united states. isn't that the very problem? you need to find the right balance. i don't think anybody would want president putin to find that, because of the sanctions, we are losing the support of our public opinion. i think this is a very important point. so we need to fine tune our sanctions to the relative impact they have, to the cost benefit they have, to the capacity of our countries to adapt to the impact of the sanctions. but look at what we di...