I think we should be promoting marriage rather than looking at any other way of weakening it".
The chancellor reinforced this message with a call for Britain and Germany to remain "united and determined" in reforming the EU and promoting competitiveness.
A standard charge against the EU promoting democracy is that the union itself is not democratic – hence Brussels is at best hypocritical.
But what does it all mean as Europe gently frazzles and David Goodhart, ex-editor of Prospect, now director of the Demos thinktank, pens an ambitious FT article (paywall) promoting a new settlement for British politics, what he calls "post-liberalism"?
The OECD was a supporter of workers in southern European countries taking a hit to their wage packets and argues that "wage adjustments have played an important role in helping the labour market weather the deep cyclical downturn, reducing job losses in the downturn and promoting employment growth in the recovery".
Hugh McIlvanney pays tribute to Sir Matt Busby, who last week ended a 23-year era by promoting himself from managing the Manchester United football team to the post of the club's General Manager.
A Hungarian midwife known for promoting home births has lost an appeal against her two-year prison sentence for malpractice.
When Guru-Murthy pressed the point, Downey Jr responded: "Are we promoting a movie?" Saying that he wasn't a liberal, Republican or Democrat, the actor added: "I was talking to the person who was doing the interview that day, and that just happened to be my opinion.
Related: Labour manifesto pledges to boost minimum wage and cut deficit Miliband is determined to junk the post-Thatcher consensus that promoting economic growth meant protecting "wealth-creators" at the top of society – a view he and his supporters believe was comprehensively disproved by the great recession and its aftermath.
This is the key question now facing Alasdair McDonnell and his embattled troops as they seek to carve out a survival strategy over the next few months: to be inside the tent or out; to offer the electorate something different other than crowing about the party's past record of promoting non-violent nationalism and historic compromise with unionism.
Many Latvians believe the influx of migrants from the USSR during decades of Soviet control was part of a concerted effort to destroy Latvian nationalism and Baltic culture, and recent government policies promoting the use of Latvian over Russian have been a source of tension.
