The European Union that emerges from the Eurozone crisis is going to be a very different body. It will be transformed perhaps beyond recognition by the measures needed to save the Eurozone.

Over the longer term, the institutions and powers of the EU will continue to expand and certain policymaking powers, heretofore vested in the member states, will be delegated or transferred to, or pooled and shared with EU institutions. As a result, the sovereignty of the member states will increasingly be eroded.

Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels.

Warm congratulations to my friend Barack Obama. Look forward to continuing to work together.

The world economy is more stable than for a generation ... Our hugely sophisticated financial markets match funds with ideas better than ever before.

Nelson Mandela was a towering figure in our time; a legend in life and now in death - a true global hero.

We need to have a bigger and more significant role for national parliaments. There is not, in my view, a single European demos.