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

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

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

In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors.

We are intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich.

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

Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.