Jorritsma veegt natuurlijk haar eigen straatje schoon, maar de gerichte publicatie van peilingen heeft de uitslag beïnvloed. Daar moet je over nadenken.

I think they've stopped dreaming of national greatness a long time ago. But they're incapable of building or even imagining a united Europe. Because the voters don't want it. Because the Americans or Chinese will crush us anyway. As Steven says, there's widespread fatalism.

Premier pro forma.

Well it of course requires QMV to end the paralysis and delays. Have made this point often in the past.

But I do feel it goes wider. Has to do with psychology across the boards. A sense of fatalism spreading. Which can and must be halted.