We must stick together, or we will lose together.

Will be drafted, will have to fight, lose our lives, our relatives.

And we need to do it not within 20 years or 50 years, but within this presidential term because if we don't, we will lose our economy, right after we'd lost our morality.

And this is the phenomenon which I call failing governance, because when I then came to Germany and started this little NGO here in Berlin, at the Villa Borsig, we were told, You cannot stop our German exporters from bribing, because we will lose our contracts.

On top of that, let us make a major leap of imagination and suppose that even though this scenario of the EU at Year Zero means we would not have a half century of intra European cooperation to draw on, the nations that today make up the EU would nevertheless be keen to adopt far reaching joint policies.