On Wednesday 3 October, Estonia’s Prime Minister Jüri Ratas addressed MEPs meeting in plenary session in Strasbourg. He delivered a resolutely pro-European speech, urging for cooperation and deepening of the EU in order to strengthen the European “feeling”.
The head of the Estonian government opened his speech with a reference to his country’s Soviet past in order to explain his country’s attachment to the European Union. He then alluded to a quote from the singer Bono, in the...