Diversity in and of itself is a strong positive.

Before a negotiation can proceed and be completed, what is outside the scope of negotiation needs to be agreed.

Of course, trade agreements can be beneficial, but of course they need to avoid infringing on certain areas and respect diversity.

The difficulty that negotiators have is often based on the cultural difference that various countries have.

We draw many benefits from globalization that people take for granted. Poverty has been reduced massively around the world. If you look at the Chinese numbers, it is quite mind-boggling: 700 million people taken out of poverty in a matter of 40 years, the poverty rate having moved from over 30 per cent from hardly six per cent now. That would not have happened if there had not been globalization.

Massive progress has been made in the last five years. More progress has to be made in terms of fiscal union and banking union.

People can buy the kind of things they consider as normal and take for granted because of globalization and trade and use of supply chains and the reduction of the cost base of the manufacturing of some products.