Mr. Seán Kelly:

I believe the European Union will expand in the future. Croatia will join on 1 July and there are many applicant countries. I have used the phrase festina lente and believe we should expand perhaps more slowly than we are currently, in order that we can control it properly and it does not unravel, which is a slight danger.

We do not know what the constituencies of MEPs will be at the next election because a decision has not been made. We probably will not know until July or possibly September, which is six or seven months before the election. That is totally discriminatory in regard to people trying to protect their jobs.

I think there are 15 bicameral institutions in the European Union. Other than in Ireland, I have not heard of any discussions on the number increasing, where countries have a single institution, or decreasing, where countries have two institutions.

In regard to the question on how people in Europe see us, they like us.