Europe Should Stick To An Open Economy,

We're Strongly In Favor Of The U.n. Plan For A Solution To The Cyprus Conflict. Hopefully A Solution Can Be Found Before The End Of This Summit, But We Cannot And Will Not Let It Block Our Decisions On Enlargement.

I Can Hardly Believe What These 12 Caricatures [about Prophet Muhammad] Have Caused In The World. We Danes Feel Like We Have Been Placed In A Scene In The Wrong Movie. But I Don't See The Fight As A Clash Of Civilizations. Rather, We Must Focus On Avoiding Exactly This Type Of Conflict. We Have To Return To Dialogue, To Mutual Understanding And To An Acknowledgement Of Freedom Of Opinion.

Ten Years Ago U.s. Defence Investment Represented Almost Half Of All Defence Expenditure In The Whole Alliance. Today It Is 75%. This Increasing Economic Gap May Also Lead To An Increasing Technology Gap Which Will Almost Hamper The Inter-operability Between Our Forces.

I Am Happy To Announce That We Have Reached An Agreement On The Question Of Transit Between The Kaliningrad Region And The Rest Of The Russian Federation.

Nato Allies Have Been Looking At Various Missile-defence Options For Some Time. Nato Itself Is Developing Protections For Our Deployed Troops.