The situation in some member states calls for careful monitoring.

Rapidly rising house prices can leave an economy vulnerable to a subsequent price correction with ensuing negative wealth effects.

This forecast is based on both a positive outlook for exports and -- more significantly -- on a progressive firming of domestic demand.

Since coming to Harwell I have met English people of all kinds, and I have come to see in many of them a deep rooted firmness which enables them to lead a decent way of life.

Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.

I am an enthusiastic European, and my first-hand experience of war and hatred has strengthened that conviction. I have seen how misguided unilateral nationalistic identities have brought destruction and death. I am, however, a world citizen, too.