Europe needs a powerful, strategic response to what is a major strategic challenge and opportunity in China's growth,

This is a step in the right direction but it is clear more needs to be done. The real problem for African cotton producers is dumping on the world market, resulting from domestic and export subsidies.

The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth.

I'm a fighter, not a quitter.

Firstly, people take for granted that the E.U. has created the biggest economic space in the world.

It is not as it has been painted - with me being pro-nuclear and Margaret being anti-nuclear. We both have the same concerns as expressed in the energy white paper, and we both have the same appreciation that nuclear has to be part of the debate.