An impartial servant of the public, Louis Michel (the EU Development Commissioner), was interviewed yesterday by the Flemish magazine Knack about the recent referendums:

“It is said that the citizens are always right. Why do they have to be always right? Even I am not always right! But I am prepared to admit this. Why would the citizens not admit it? Politicians should not follow the citizens blindly, they should go in front of the people and show them the way.”

That's the EU elite mindset in its full glory.

And what does the man who is showing us the way think about the recent summit? Go on, have a guess.

Yup. Everything would have turned up trumps if it hadn't been for those bloody Brits:

“I only know that the British did not want the summit to be a success..[The British] have a different kind of roadmap. They want Europe to be a purely economic space. If we follow them we risk turning the EU into a miniature copy of the United States. If we restrict the EU to a free market association without common rules, without this constitution, without shared political values, then Europe will no longer be able to make the citizens dream.”

(via Brussels Journal.)