  A quark-meson coupling model based on the quark model proposed by Bogoliubov
for the description of the quark dynamics is developed and applied to the
description of neutron stars. Starting from a su(3) symmetry approach, it is
shown that this symmetry has to be broken in order to satisfy the constraints
set by the hypernuclei and by neutron stars. The model is able to describe
observations such as two solar mass stars or the radius of canonical neutron
stars within the uncertainties presently accepted. If the optical potentials
for $\Lambda$ and $\Xi$ hyperons in symmetric nuclear matter at saturation
obtained from laboratory measurements of hypernuclei properties are imposed the
model predicts no strangeness inside neutron stars.
