Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable.

We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization.

Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.

He was really talking a lot about globalization and the interdependence of communities and countries and how biotech is going to fit into all kinds of the current needs of the world, like feeding the hungry and increasing crops.

The world has changed dramatically, with globalization and free trade, moving from an industrial economy to an information economy, ... But while that's been happening, K-12 education hasn't changed at all. Meanwhile, China's graduating five times as many engineers as we are, and you look at India and you get alarmed.

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