David Cameron says he wants to keep Britain in the EU, but his tactics are so divisive that, if he gets what he wants it will be at the price of huge ill-will in Europe; or if he doesn't, it will be at the price of increased anti-EU sentiment in his own party and in British society.

The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free.

U.S. companies earn more from their investments in the EU than in the rest of the world combined.

European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together.

States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all.

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

A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence.