I visit the applicant countries relatively often. I have been to the Baltic countries, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic and I know the huge efforts they have made to try to fulfil the tasks given to them so that they would be eligible for membership. They have done so at great personal expense in some cases. It is important to remember the words last week of the President of the European Parliament, Pat Cox, who, to paraphrase, said that some of the Governments that have brought forward these changes now have a hard time in holding the line, even in holding the line on democracy in many cases.