I blame him for his weakness and lack of determination. At the beginning of this year we had a wave of nationalist incidents and attacks on the E. U. project, including some by members of his own party. He did not look the problem in the eye and draw a clear line between anti-E. U. nationalism and the attitude of tolerance. He tried to avoid the subject.
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