Given the pressures and problems faced by the Crown Dependencies over the last two years, it is more important now than ever before to stick together.
That's according to Jersey's treasury minister Philip Ozouf, who has paid a flying visit to the Island to meet our new treasury minister Anne Craine face-to-face.
Mr Ozouf says Jersey obviously competes with the Isle of Man for business as an offshore jurisdiction, but stresses there are also common interests which transcend that:

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