‘The rapid advancement in science and technology in general and especially in modern methods of communication implicates that Europe has become the peninsula that Paul Valéry spoke of, despite its considerable economic potential, its wealth, its high culture and its advanced civilization. In other words, Europe no longer holds a part of its destiny in its own hands. […] Only within a united Europe can the nations of Europe continue on the historic path that they have successfully gone down in the Christian–occidental and European history in the next millennium. The outer and inner peace, the maintenance and increase of collective culture and finally the unshakeable belief in a common European destiny: these are the different factors whose interplay will lead to success in the end, assuming of course, that Europeans actually want this success.’