Equality of access to the membership of the European Commission has been guaranteed. This is the single most important result of the negotiations in the past seven days. While it is proposed that there will be 15 voting members within the Commission rotating on the basis of strict equality as defined in the Nice treaty, all member states will be entitled to have a nominee in the Commission. It is important to emphasise this point because naysayers in this country are trying to persuade us that black is white and words mean something other than what they mean. Equality means equality and translates into all the working languages of the Community. There are some wording issues on which we are still negotiating. The Leader knows this is one of the reasons I am anxious to travel to Brussels this evening.