I regard my attendance at the Council of Ministers as one of the greatest privileges of my political life, and there a few people in this Chamber who have also been in that position. What you see there is the parity of esteem that exists between the larger and the smaller countries; the size of the country or its percentage of the vote does not arise as a factor. All states are there as equal partners, whether it is the Germans, the French, the British or anybody else. When an issue arose, we would often receive support from a variety of countries.