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We intend to continue our interest in the affairs of Europe and of the world.

I think American interests are served when there are sections of the world that have representative governments, politically open economic systems, and are willing to take a stand against some of the more extreme ideologies that there are around the world.

We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.

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.

It's in our interests that the euro is a successful, strong currency.

I have specifically argued that we need to change our relationship with the European Union by fundamentally reforming not just our relationship but the European Union itself.

In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together.

The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests.

Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.