Europe certainly needs a genuine conservative movement to combat the creeping bureaucratic collectivism that is stifling the human potential of the Continent.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I see the cultural diversity that exists today, I feel that we must defend it, and we need Europe, because otherwise we are going to live in a society with a single model, the Anglo-American model.
Europe must be understood and controlled by its citizens.
Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations.
What we need is a common goal for more Europe.
We have a huge responsibility to make sure that Europe remains a prosperous and peaceful continent.
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.
The Liberal Democrat Party and the Conservative Party come at things very differently when it comes to Europe. When it comes to political reform, we have a much greater tradition in the Liberal Democrats of social justice and fairness than the Conservatives do.
Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.
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.
We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.