Western Europe is the most civilised place in the world to live. It has the lowest rates of incarceration of any prison system in the world and has the highest rates of economic transfers by way of social welfare benefit and health systems. More personal freedoms are to be enjoyed in western Europe than in any other place in the world but we take all these developments for granted. What we have established in Europe over the past 15 to 20 years is unique. One cannot possibly suggest that an enlarged Union will be a mirror of the United States of America or another area of political control. We should take pride in that. The two arguments I presented are not mutually exclusive.