Recently, Mr President, we have, in fact, witnessed the emergence
of an increasingly clear, worrying contradiction which very few governments appear to
want to avoid: the contradiction between the courageous decisions which have already been taken, such as those on the single currency, common defence and the major, historical enlargement of the Union, and the reluctance to accept the institutional implications. If this contradiction is responsible for the negative outcome of the Conference, it will mean a crisis for European integrati
...[+++]on.