What we need is a common goal for more Europe.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
So that we focus not on competing visions for Europe but on what Europe can do to improve economic growth, to give us a cleaner environment, to create more jobs, to make us more secure.
What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe.
We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.
Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations.
In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together.
Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that - more of a deeper political union.
Above all it is important to point out that we can only maintain our prosperity in Europe if we belong to the most innovative regions in the world.
We need less theoretical debate and more practical application and acknowledgment of what Europe can and does do so that it is brought home to people in a relevant way.
As Tony Blair has made clear, our fundamental challenge is how to make Europe work better.
The structures in Europe in a globalising economy need to be modernised, need to be more integrated, need to be stronger.
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