The Stupidity Nationalism Can Trigger in Seemingly Intelligent People

Axel Schäfer, European affairs spokesman for Germany’s Social Democratic Party, comments Boris Johnson’s EU-Hitler comparison:

Like many other politicians in Germany I am speechless at what stupidity nationalism can trigger in seemingly intelligent people.

The European Union is a club which 28 member states have joined voluntarily, not by force, and which is made up of them, and not of Brussels. It is also a club in which Britain plays a leading role, and which would be unimaginable without British leadership.