The concept of having an inner core of 15 Commissioners voting at Commission meetings helps achieve this balance. The fact that these 15 Commissioners will be rotated on the basis of strict equality between member states is the only fair and equitable way forward. Each country, big and small, will have a Commissioner for ten out of each 15 years. This is a significant advance on the Nice treaty proposals. Should this most recent compromise be finally agreed, as I hope it will, we can expect some of the larger countries will then press for a major extension of qualified majority voting. We have to be extremely careful of any such proposal. The present concept of a qualified majority – a majority of member states representing at least 60% of the EU population – should not be watered down in any way. I hope the proposal of the so-called super-qualified majority for more sensitive policy areas will be seriously taken on board.