We're not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let's be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya.

Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.

I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.

A generation of children has been betrayed.

One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.

People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided at that level.

How long do Syrian families have to live in fear that their children will be killed or tortured, before the Security Council will act? How many people need to die before the consciences of world capitals are stirred?