I think that is profoundly mistaken. Neither history nor current reality suggests that areas which don't trade have better environmental conditions. Equally I'm not aware of any work which shows a positive correlation between autarky and high standards of human rights. I believe trade has brought enormous benefits - and because of technology it can bring still more including the open flow of knowledge. Far from restricting trade we should be opening more doors, and encouraging transparency - because to me it is the light of that transparency which makes abuse, corruption and environmental neglect more difficult.
Progress needs the engagement of the world as a whole.
By talking about what Europe can do, I am talking about the need to share leadership as part of a cooperative transatlantic relationship. I very much hope that the work done here will stimulate ideas and encourage steps in that direction. So I have high hopes for this programme. The secret of Florence has always seemed to me to lie in the combination of diversity and freedom of the imagination and optimism. That combination made possible the remarkable progress made at the time of the Renaissance.