"We are paying for Europe, not getting that much, but paying for it." Enlargement, he says, has gone too far. And there's more. "Lots of bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is growing faster than the European Union itself. Big problem." So I ask him whether he still has faith in Europe, faith that the EU is the right way forward for Germany? "Absolutely," he cuts across me, before I can finish the sentence. "The only way to go in Europe is this coming together of the nations, this is the only way that we can stand the challenges of the future." "Follow the...
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