"We’re in a mess but we should put things into perspective: The EU is constant crisis management. You move from one crisis to the other and, at the end of the day, it’s just a question of the size of the crisis and who gets hit the hardest. I have always believed the EU advances in three-phases: Phase no. 1 is crisis, phase no. 2 is chaos and phase no. 3 is sub-optimal solution, and that’s very much the nature of the beast."
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Alexander Stubb
Cai-Göran Alexander Stubb (born 1 April 1968 in Helsinki) is a Finnish politician and the current President of Finland. He was Prime Minister 2014–2015, Minister for Foreign Affairs 2008–2011 and a Member of the European Parliament with the European People's Party (EPP) 2004–2008.
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