Skillelinjen mellem dem, der ønsker et politisk Europa, og dem, der ønsker at reducere Europa til et marked, går i dag mellem en styrkelse af fællesskabskompetencerne over for det mellemstatslige samarbejde, og ikke omvendt. Det har kommissionsformanden for kort tid siden forklaret her i Parlamentet.
The dividing line between those who want a political Europe and those who want to reduce it to a market lies in strengthening the Community rather than intergovernmental operations, and not the opposite, as the President of the Commission explained quite recently in this Assembly.