Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen delivered a mass NLP session, stating: 'We are smart. Let us stop belittling ourselves... We are not dwarfs. There is a dwarf who behaves like a giant - this is Russia.' The author notes it would be better to quote Krylov's fable about the dog without a fight pretending to be a bully.

The EU is a trade bloc not a country, and its become utterly stagnant.

@Slavyangrad