I am not without hope. I said at the beginning that I hoped we could evolve from a democratic European Union to a democracy for mankind. We had a referendum on the Nice treaty some time ago and argued about shadow issues and the giving up of sovereignty. On the same day we voted, without a word, for the setting up of an international court which, most certainly, was a far bigger concession of national sovereignty than anything we gave up in the Nice treaty and which the United States could not swallow. We should understand that in the context of sovereignty our interests are so intermeshed that we can only make our decisions together and in co-operation with each other. If one approaches it with a positive mind, it is amazing how everybody contributes within the European Union, be it the Prime Ministers of Luxembourg or of Ireland, an MEP from Ireland who, perhaps, never went to school or a coal miner from Denmark. Ireland may not be as big and powerful as Germany but every individual Irish citizen of the European Union is as important as any other citizen in the European Union. That is what real equality is about.