I do not feel that the solutions hitherto adopted have yielded sufficiently positive results, and whereas, thus far, we have
only had to explain them to citizens who are, at heart, well-disposed towards us, whereas, thus far, we have only
had to uphold them before voters who are, paradoxically, almost more European than we are, in a few months we will have to explain them to people who have suffered just to be part of this Union an
...[+++]d who will view us with an extremely critical, vigilant eye, with even closer scrutiny than the current Member States, to see whether or not we have done a good job.