I believe that if you treat China as an enemy, then it is likely to become one.

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.

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.

The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world.

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

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.

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