Tem piada, e há nisto mais ensinamentos do que salta à primeira vista, mas não estou com muita vontade para puxar pela cabeça

In the EU, everyone is paranoid | Charlemagne's notebook | Economist.com: "One of the oddities of covering the European Union is watching rival factions scrap it out over policies, jobs and money, then—when the squabbling is over—all conclude that they have all been cruelly stitched up. Actually, it is odder still: in public, all European governments like to boast that they have scored historic victories in Brussels. Then in private, their diplomats and officials wander around looking miserable, saying they have been traduced and venting all manner of conspiracy theories about the perfidy of their opponents."