‘The United Europe will be a democratically organised state. And as the aim of every true democracy is to develop the virtues of the citizen so will it be among the aims of the Community to safeguard and develop the national characteristics of each of its peoples. The fears of these sceptics obviously derive from confusion. Carried away by the differences on the surface, they do not perceive the unity beneath. […] They forget, in other words, the European civilisation which is a synthesis of the Greek, Roman and Christian spirit. A synthesis to which the Greek spirit contributed the idea of Freedom, Truth and Beauty; to which the Roman spirit contributed the idea of State and Justice and the Christian spirit Faith and Love.’