Some people want a federal Europe, others talk about a super-state while others refer to a Europe of the nations. I am not interested in any of those concepts. The European Union is the greatest effort at human co-operation ever undertaken. The question is how to organise it. Obviously, we are committed to organising it on a democratic basis. What is important now is the decision on the compentences we wish to give the European Union. Subsidiarity was written into the Maastricht treaty. This means that decisions should be taken at the appropriate level of government. I regularly tell young people that when I started my career there were two levels of government; now there are three.