The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace..

The EU and the U.S. often work together to develop international standards. This is the case in fighting terrorism and transnational crime, advancing….

The E.U. is more than just a trade organization or a common market; it is a guarantee of democracy, freedom, justice, and human rights. Nations canno….

The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined..

Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history..

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong..

U.S. companies rely on the European market for more than half of their global foreign profits..

If the EU and the US can cooperate successfully on regulating financial markets, everyone else will follow..

States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all..

It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs..

Proliferation of nuclear weapons to terrorist organisations is far more dangerous than proliferation of nuclear weapons to states, even states like N….

Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investmen….

The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free..

The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint situation center to po….

One cannot have economic growth without security..

But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need financial market regulatio….

The Irish Free State was one of dozens of new European democracies to emerge from the cauldron of the 1914-1918 war. It was one of the very few that ….

The U.S. - E.U. economic relationship dwarfs America's economic ties with China..

Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights i….

David Cameron says he wants to keep Britain in the EU, but his tactics are so divisive that, if he gets what he wants it will be at the price of huge….

A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence..