In the EU he wants common European project bonds to finance infrastructure, a capital injection for the European Investment Bank (EIB) and a redirection of EU regional funds towards jobs.
Not least to the EU he will have to demonstrate that he is a true democrat, unafraid of criticism, sensitive to those who are fearful of a creeping Islamist agenda, and a fence-builder with the Kurds.
Might he recommend leaving the EU if he didn't get a good deal?
While he personally preferred to remain in the EU and he believed negotiations would be successful, he added.
While he favoured the UK remaining within the EU, he believed that asking the public to decide would help "clear the air" and he trusted the British public to reach a "sensible" decision.
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This week the Finnish Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen warned against proposals that bypass the EU. He and other smaller nations fear an EU that is increasingly a Franco-German union with France in a supportive role.
But his task is bigger than this: He's a border inspector for the whole of the EU and he must make sure that everything that leaves Frankfurt is clean of any diseases.
He says he does not seek immediate secession but wants the Belgian federal shell gradually to dissolve into the EU. He has a vision not only of Flemish emancipation but of economic liberty: Flanders should be permitted to develop a liberal economy less burdened by Walloon demands for social transfers.
But although he was in favour of repatriating powers from the European Union, he conceded that there was "no immediate prospect" of rebalancing power between the UK and the EU, he told the Andrew Marr Show.
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The German foreign minister went out of his way to say that he hoped the UK would continue to play an "active" and "constructive" role in the EU. He offered a concession: he agreed that not everything decided in Brussels needed to remain at a European level.
Cypriot leaders must first reach agreement with their fellow members of the EU, he added.
Such policies made it "ever more difficult" to persuade people of the benefits of remaining within the EU, he added.
Prime Minister David Cameron has promised a referendum on the UK's relationship with the EU if he wins elections due in 2015.
EU, he says, the Czechs should have a referendum on the matter.
While not wanting to leave the EU, he might welcome a Tory-led revolt against deeper integration, and cheer the derailing of the Lisbon treaty.
EU, he sets great store by good relations with the Europeans, and has no time for the idea that Asia has supplanted Europe in importance.
Cultural projects can be co-financed by the Commission and regional authorities in the EU, he explained, "but we want to know why this concert benefited this region".
The tradition in the EU, he notes, is that member governments never gang up on another country and isolate them on a point that touches their fundamental interests.
If the UK blocked agreement on such a tax in the full EU, he said in an interview with the Financial Times, the eurozone should press ahead on its own.
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Mr Ponta had tried to scrap the requirement of a minimum turnout for the referendum through an emergency decree, but in the face of unusually strong criticism from the EU, he reversed course.
He said supporting the City was in the national interest, as the UK accounted for 40% of all financial services business in the EU and he turned on Labour's record on bank regulation in government.
Hitting back at Lord Lawson and former Defence Secretary Michael Portillo, who has also come out in favour of leaving the EU, he said inward investment depended on the UK remaining in the "largest trading bloc in the world".
The EU, he claims, is hurting one of our most important industries - financial services - and, secure "within the warm embrace of the European single market", giving British businesses an excuse not to develop trade with the developing economies.
As the chief policeman for unfair state aid in the 27-country EU, he will also play a decisive role in the overhaul of troubled Spanish banks and the setting up of a new, powerful banking supervisor for the euro zone.
Accepting victory before a crowd of delighted supporters at his party's headquarters in Ankara, the capital, Mr Erdogan immediately pledged to keep up efforts to join the EU. He also addressed fears among millions of urban and middle-class Turks that his party is bent on unravelling decades of determinedly secular rule launched under the founder of modern Turkey, Kemal Ataturk.
The justice secretary said he was not "necessarily" calling for more EU vetoes and he acknowledged there were things the party might like to do but could not because it was in coalition.
Belgium's Finance Minister, Didier Reynders, says he will soon ask EU finance ministers to consider proposals for a direct EU tax - though he insists this would be "without increasing the overall tax burden" on the citizens of Europe.
He says Poland should be more cautious about membership of the EU, because he believes it is being used by the Germans to dominate Europe.
He praised Mr Miliband's call to forge alliances in the EU to bring about reforms, but when asked to comment on Labour's demand for a cut in the EU budget, and support from some senior figures for a referendum on EU membership, he gave what he described as a "diplomatic" answer.
The former PM said he took the view that it was in Britain's national interest to stay in the EU - and he believed the "vast majority" of voters could be persuaded to support continued membership.
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