The economies in Europe that will prosper, are those that are the greenest and the most energy efficient

The legacy of Mandela is to have brought the country together... South Africa can be one of the success stories of the 21st century.

Because with courage and conviction I believe we can deliver a more flexible, adaptable and open European Union in which the interests and ambitions of all its members can be met.

The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc.

It's time to place the market within a moral framework - even if that means standing up to companies who make life harder for parents and families.

The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc. We must not be weighed down by an insistence on a one size fits all approach which implies that all countries want the same level of integration. The fact is that they don't and we shouldn't assert that they do.

I want completing the single market to be our driving mission. I want us to be at the forefront of transformative trade deals with the US, Japan and India as part of the drive towards global free trade. And I want us to be pushing to exempt Europe's smallest entrepreneurial companies from more EU directives.