"It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home."

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If you had said to anyone in 1945, at the end of the Second World War with the continent it ruins, that you could have a European Union of 28 member states stretching from Portugal in the West to Estonia in the East, all of them more-or-less liberal democracies - they wouldn't have believed you.

— Timothy Garton Ash