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Quote of the week:

 

"With the Lisbon Treaty, I think we are seeing the emergence of a state-like system in the EU. A state-like system which behaves like a state, without providing for the essential ingredients of a democratic state, and my fundamental question would be whether we want this."

 

Dr Jochen Bittner, Europe Correspondent for Die Zeit, 9 September, Open Europe event, Dublin