European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together.
A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence.
The U.S. - E.U. economic relationship dwarfs America's economic ties with China.
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.
One cannot have economic growth without security.
The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint situation center to pool and analyze intelligence.