Dupuis (NI - Radical). - Mr President, Mr President of the Council, Commissioner, colleagues, I believe that the honourable Gawronski is right: it is the European Union that stands to gain most from this enlargement. But this enlargement - I think this should be pointed out, and in fact I hope to obtain replies from the Council and the Commission - is not the end of the process of enlargement of the European Union: there are ten or more countries in the Caucasus and the Balkans which are not even on the list of candidate countries, which are therefore not even in the situation of Turkey, and they are countries that the European Union needs, just as it needs Turkey, partly to avoid a further slide towards fundamentalism, as I have heard today from several colleagues. We have heard the reports on each of the candidate countries, but I believe that it would be honest and also correct to provide these ten countries that are about to join the European Union with a report on the current situation of the fifteen Member States. From an economic point of view, I believe that it would perhaps be useful for these countries to know that we cannot rule out the risk of a "Japan syndrome” in the European continent, that Germany, Italy, and also France are currently incapable of carrying out the structural reforms that are necessary, and that considering their size this might also affect the economies of the ten candidate countries. Likewise it would, perhaps, be in the interest of these ten new countries to know that in some of the current Member States, the workings of justice are certainly not those of a democracy: I am thinking of Belgium and Italy, but also of other apparently more marginal elements such as what has recently been going on in Denmark, in your own country, Mr President of the Council, that is the way in which the authorities in your country have dealt with the question of the imprisonment of the Deputy Prime Minister of Chechnya, Mr Akhmed Zakayev. It seems to me that what has happened is far from being in keeping with the Rule of Law. We are talking about the Europe of democracies, but perhaps we should also talk about the Europe of democracy, which would undoubtedly fail, here in the Parliament, in the Council and in the Commission, to satisfy the criteria we have established for the candidate countries: and here lies the importance of the development of the Convention, a question which we hope will be tackled and resolved with a move towards the American model of democracy, and not with a return to the continental tradition that has done so much harm to Europe in the past.