Europe was born with Jean Monnet but then was progressively transformed.
The Commission is extremely important. The E.U. without the Commission would not be the European Union.
As Tony Blair has made clear, our fundamental challenge is how to make Europe work better.
For Europe to play a part in the world on the scale of its wealth and its population and its capacities, Europe has to be united in some way, and Europe is not united.
For many people, politics in Brussels and Strasbourg might as well be happening on another planet.
The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century.
I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.
At the heart of these challenges lies the question of how the institutions of the European Union make laws, the types of laws they pass and the effectiveness with which those laws are implemented on civil society and the economy.
The Netherlands believes in a vigorous Europe with a commission that is independent and robust.
I am a very committed European.
We must build a kind of United States of Europe.
