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

We are intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich.

What is most important for Europe is economic growth and jobs, security at home and safety in the world.

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.

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

I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.

They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.