Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education.

But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need financial market regulation that works at national and European level.

Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education.

The U.S. - E.U. economic relationship dwarfs America's economic ties with China.

Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.

U.S. companies rely on the European market for more than half of their global foreign profits.

We in Ireland have not been immune from the bigotry and the indifference which manifested itself in Europe this century