Regardless of whether new powers are conferred, I hope the position will be clarified in order that people will be informed as to the objectives and values they share as Europeans and the rights to which they are entitled within the European Union and so that they can know who does what within the EU, the nature of the system of checks and balances and the circumstances in which they can take a case to court if they have a problem. If we could put forward a document explaining the nature of the EU in fairly plain and not excessively legal language – I accept that it would be a legal document – we would do ourselves a major favour. If I could address a classroom full of intelligent young Irish schoolchildren and leave them with a reasonable impression of what the European Union is, would that not be wonderful? That is the vision of Vaclav Havel and I believe he is on to something.