Responding to the challenge of climate change is the ultimate political test for our generation...Our package not only responds to this challenge, but...is an opportunity that should create thousands of new businesses and millions of jobs in Europe.

The E.U. is founded on the Treaties which apply only to the Member States who have agreed and ratified them.

What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open.

By the way, the European Union Member States together - even the euro area Member States together - are by far the biggest contributors to the IMF.

There is no stability without solidarity and no solidarity without stability.

I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries.

I think diversity can also be a resource, an asset, especially in a world that is becoming globalized, to deal with difference, to deal with variety, to deal with complexity.