“Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.”
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Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.
People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change.
Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.
The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.
