He went on to say "the future of Europe - its future prosperity, its future capacity to provide employment for its people, its future capacity to finance the services its people require - all of these things depend on Europe's ability to think and to act as Europe, as a true Community, and not as a heterogeneous collection of a dozen separate economic units".
- 2 - Il a poursuivi en declarant que l'avenir de l'Europe, a savoir sa prosperite future et sa capacite de creer des emplois et de financer les services necessaires a ses citoyens, etait tributaire de son aptitude a penser et a agir en tant qu'Europe, c'est-a-dire comme une veritable Communaute et non comme un ensemble heterogene forme de 12 unites economiques distinctes.