The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.

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 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.

The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.

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

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.

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