And many of his European partners will be doing the same.

No one need be surprised by the regular rows among the European 'partners'.

It is important that we work closely with our European partners on this.

First, for many of our European partners, the rules apply on paper but not in practice.

It is an agreement to which our European partners were happy to sign up, and they have gone back to their own countries to celebrate.

A similar deal is supposedly in the works with a European partner.

We need our European partners to take those decisions as well.

Many European partners too are still failing to meet the mark.

We should finally accept this small country as a genuine European partner.

Here the European partners must learn from each other how to create more jobs.