The second concern I have, which is an old concern of mine, is the continuing degree to which civic society feels that many things in Europe are done in secret. I refer particularly to the continual lobbying of NGOs concerned with development issues and trade issues on the process by which the EU arrives at a single trade policy. Committee 133 is, rightly or wrongly, a bete noire to most of the NGOs because they do not know its agenda, its processes, or its outcomes. The idea that such a major issue as European trade policy would effectively be decided in secret, apart from being bad for democracy, is bad for the project. I want to know what are the future prospects of genuine openness? I believe President Cox subscribes to this, but it is not necessarily a part of the culture that has developed in the European Union. Indeed, a considerable part of his political achievement was to expose the more sordid side of that secrecy, an area in which he was particularly successful.