In his speech on the state of the European Union on September 11 to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, stated –

When you're all in the same boat, you can't say: ‘Your part of the boat is sinking.’ We were in the same boat when things were going well and we are still there when things go badly.

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