I believe in a Europe of values. I have talked much about Ireland and interests because in this treaty we are being asked to say "Yes" to something that is in our interest as well as to something that is morally right. What a wonderful conjunction in politics to suit one's pocket and to do the morally right thing at the same time. Through enlargement we are promoting pluralist democracy and sustaining it. It was to maintain pluralist democracy and to keep the flame of its values of human, individual and minority rights at the heart of affairs that, after Franco, Europe connected with Spain. After the dictator Salazar it connected with Portugal to do the same thing. We took in Greece in 1981 against what seemed the odds because the colonels had gone and we were sustaining democracy. That set of values matters very much in the newly independent states of central and eastern Europe. Europe respects cultural diversity; it is not an oppressive force and it does not represent a melting pot theory of integration. Europe would offend its own interests if it was to cease to respect the cultural plurality and the civic diversity on which it is founded through its states.