Having said this, the EU is not only about markets, trade, profits and losses. The EU is much more than that: The EU is the most important and successful peace project Europe has ever seen. Visionaries like Winston Churchill, Robert Schuman and Jean Monnet were needed to outline how to overcome deeply vested, ingrained divisions within Europe.
In fact, the discussion as such was and is more differentiated in Washington; and I expect that we will see a similar debate also at this conference.