It's not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty.

You have to have as many defences in place as you possibly can. But even then of course - and it's important to stress this - you cannot guarantee being able to prevent every attack or every kind of attack.

The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.

In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time.

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

It's not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty.

The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels.