Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations.

Of course, the EU is not going to fall apart, but at best it will stagnate for the foreseeable future and we will be dealing with quite a lot of internal chaos.

I think Europe is going in the right direction and we shouldn't be set back.

In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy.

I'm a fighter, not a quitter.

Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable.

Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations.