I'm proud of Britain's role in driving forward the single market and the EU's eastward expansion.
Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) was supposed to banish the competitive devaluations that threatened the single market in the early 1990s.
The single market and the EU's competition and state-aid rules are under attack as national governments look for ways to protect jobs.
The result is that even American and Japanese businessmen are now more likely to extol the merits of the single market than the Brits.
They know they are accused in places like France of destabilising the single market and the single currency in their quest for competitiveness and low labour costs.
What's more, these officials would add, that desire to protect the single market and the principle of non-discrimination related to all of the economy - not just financial services.
If the economics of pulling apart the euro look dubious, the politics risks detonating a chain reaction that would threaten the fabric of the single market and the EU itself.
Though the next president will not be allowed any new initiatives as grand as the single market and the single currency, the job has since gained in significance in two ways.
On the other hand, he has the commercial interests of the UK's banks and businesses to protect, and he fears that a more closely-knit eurozone would seek to rig the single market to the detriment of Britain.
Treaty change would require all member countries of the EU to agree, and Britain views this as an opportunity to win changes in other areas, such as protection for the single market and the City of London.
But, at a lecture at the LSE earlier this week, Sir Malcolm Rifkind argued that it was "overwhelmingly in Britain's interest to remain a full participant in the biggest single market in the world, with the ability to shape the rules".
The reforms "should tackle weaknesses in product market regulation, labour market institutions, tax systems, and strengthen the single market, " the body said.
It is, Polish officials argue, the best way to make the country more competitive, to strengthen and enlarge the EU's single market for the benefit of everyone.
As he explains, the EU is not a single market in the same way that the U.S. is, and the travel patterns on both sides of the Atlantic are different.
More broadly, there are questions to be asked about where the single market stops, and how far new laws need to be passed in order to make the single market function efficiently.
The industry is one of several spared the early rigours of the single market, because the social and economic consequences of liberalisation were so great.
For another, if euro-zone members overcome their differences and integrate much more deeply, they would arguably be leaving Britain, especially if their integration fragments the single market that is the bedrock of British membership.
"We are concerned that an over-emphasis in your speech on renegotiation and a referendum rather than leadership could undermine the single market, " the MPs - including former ministers Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Stephen Dorrell - wrote.
As the UK's Europe Minister, David Lidington, said: "If you look at the summit conclusions, you'll find very ambitious language there about strengthening the single market, cutting the amount of red tape and regulation on small businesses, on expanding external trade".
But it would be aghast at the 44% of business leaders who think that, to develop the single market further, the commission should press Britain, along with Sweden and Denmark, to join the other 12 EU countries in adopting the euro.
It was a plea for Europe to change itself for its own sake - abandoning the shared goal of "ever-closer union", accepting that the single market rather than the single currency was the key shared ambition and agreeing that powers should be returned to member states not inexorably transferred to Brussels.
Having successfully adopted a single market, the European Union is now taking on a single currency.
This could be troubling because of the possible links between the single currency and the single market.
And he handed two of the three portfolios in which the commission has the greatest power trade and the single market to the British and Irish commissioners (ie, to free-market liberals).
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Along with this comes a second task: to preserve the single market, by far the EU's greatest achievement of recent years.
More than any other body it has upheld the principles of the single market, often incurring the wrath of powerful member states.
Moreover a chaotic Greek departure would devastate the country's political life, because Greece would risk expulsion from the single market and perhaps even the EU itself.
The current crisis, if it leads to the break-up of the euro, could bring about a catastrophic break-up of the single market repeating the mistakes of the 1930s after all.
But fellow Tory Bernard Jenkin said less than 10% of the UK's trade in manufactured goods was with the EU and the single market could not be the "overriding consideration" when deciding the UK's national interest.
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