The citizens of Europe, in my view, should directly elect the President of the Commission, in the same way as the citizens of the United States directly elect the President of their union. A simple choice of candidates for the Presidency of the European Commission would attract people out to vote because ultimately people are more interested in people than in ideas. A current complex system that allows people to vote directly for one member in one part of Europe's Legislature, the European Parliament, but not for the people who will represent them in the other part, the Council of Ministers, is far too complex to attract the sort of turnout we need. Here at national level, voters can change their Government at election time but at European level, the most we are able to change at the time of a European election is one MEP out of 700 or more. That is not good enough. It does not give voters a sense that they can achieve change. Accountability and democratic responsibility require that voters be able to change the direction and the people at the top in Europe.