Of the European Union's budget, 40% goes on agriculture, 30% on Structural Funds, about 7% on internal policies, research and so on. The big danger is that we will have a Europe that makes laws and all we will see coming from the European institutions are directives. They are over there telling us what we may or may not do, which is fine – that has to be done – but national governments will appear with the goodies and it will appear that Europe has no goodies. John Healy of The Irish Times said we were destined when we went to the European Parliament to live a remote and lonely existence because there was no pork barrel in Europe out of which awards could be made for the political effort that sent us there. We will have to be very careful about the people of Europe perceiving the European institutions as a factory for the turning out of directives. The €6 billion or €7 billion that was divided in the early days for actions in favour of women, the handicapped and the poor of the inner cities, may not be important in an economic sense, but we must reserve some place in the European budget for those actions which will help to connect Europe with its ordinary citizens as well as explaining its necessity to them.