‘Gradually a European community is evolving without giving up the regional, cultural and linguistic diversity of our European people. It is a process that has taken hold of the minds and hearts of our European citizens. It can not be reversed. […] We want more than a Europe where working together only comes about drudgingly through bureaucratic processes and compromises in standards. We want a Europe that excites people with its intrinsic idea of liberty, its fraternalism, justice and freedom, through its power to achieve, its sciences, literature and art.’