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The majority of decisions in Europe are done by unanimity. That's why it is important to be to have good relations with all parts.

So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this engagement can be one of the most important and effective decisions in the last 50 years maybe.

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 by the EU. That needs to change.

European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

Having decisions made not in midnight deals but in the light of objective evidence and after consulting those who will be affected should itself provide some reassurance that the EU is trying to reform itself.

Well, I have concerns about the effectiveness of Europe to compete.

There have been major disagreements within the European Union.

It's not for Germany to decide for the rest of Europe.

We've managed to find a way of making decisions that prevents conflict arising - there has been no war between European members at any point in the last 70 years.