Seanad debates
Wednesday, 26 November 2003
Address by Mr. Joe McCartin, MEP.
Senator Maurice Hayes asked where the limits lie. I am not anxious to place geographic limits on Europe. I do not know who designed its borders, but Cicero said that the Romans lived around the Mediterranean like frogs around a pool so Europe would include north Africa. My vision is of a democracy for mankind, but we should not try to raise that idea too fast. We must be patient and enlarge only as we can handle it. We must not be pushed by outside forces or agendas into creating a Europe that is ungovernable and with which we are not happy.
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