Me parece extraordinario que este continente, que ha exportado la idea de la democracia parlamentaria y del gobierno representativo, que ha sembrado las semillas de la democracia en países lejanos en los que han encontrado tierra fértil, ahora vaya a talar el árbol ancestral de Europa.
It seems to me extraordinary that this continent, which exported the idea of representative government and parliamentary democracy, which carried the seeds of democracy to far continents where they found fertile soil, should now have taken the axe to the ancestral tree here in Europe.