It's important to recognize that we in Europe will either succeed together or fail together.

Now it is firstly a matter of a clean divorce, because citizens and companies need legal certainty. Can there be a new partnership with the United Kingdom one day? All 27 Member States would have to agree to that. And the United Kingdom would first have to reflect on what it wants itself.

But anyone who believes that the eternal issue of war and peace in Europe has been permanently laid to rest could be making a monumental error. The demons haven't been banished; they are merely sleeping, as the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo have shown us.

From the very beginning Europe has been not only a success story but also a story of success achieved by learning.

I don't think Spain will need any kind of external support.

It is always said that Europe is a project of the elite. That's incorrect.

There can be no doubt that, with the United Kingdom, we will lose a very market-oriented voice.