We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization.

Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.

Few politicians are good at taking the high ground and throwing themselves off it.

We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization.

I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this.

What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe.

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