I do not understand the point about aggressive Europe. Europe was not invented to give Structural Funds to Ireland or for the Common Agricultural Policy. It has all those things. Europe's raison d'être, animation and heart and soul and the vision of Monnet, Schuman, Adenauer, de Gasperi and Spaak at the beginning were clear and simple. They were the creative act of reconciliation, burying the old balance of power Europe, setting to one side the Europe which had produced two barbaric wars in the 20th century and the beginning of a new way. It is the most successful sustained peace project our Continent has ever known. It is perverse to begin to label it as some type of post or neo-imperial aggressive super state. It is counter-intuitive and unhistorical to lay that claim against today's European Union.