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The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.

We link our future to the euro, to the euro zone, and to the European Union while being the nearest neighbor of the United Kingdom with, obviously, a common travel area and a very close working relationship with the U.K.

I have a European frame of mind and Europe is my home.

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 and America must act together in the face of evil. It's high time for Americans and Europeans to restore that unity and be able to take actions collectively together.

I think that we must come together progressively, with the British, the Germans, the Spanish, the Italians and with the new members of the European Union, we must make an effort to forge closer links.

Europe is a community of half a billion people, more than Russia and the United States combined.

What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you're going to have enormous impact on America, that's a very big trading partner of ours, and people own securities around the world in this day and age.

I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children.

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.