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.

Europe lacks leadership and a sense of mission and too many people don't feel a part of it.

Having viewed Europe as an extension and projection of itself, France now finds Europe developing a mind and identity of its own which embraces France but is not controlled by France.

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

The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.

If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization.