This edited text concentrates on the importance of democratic values to Europe and their absence in the EU's developing federal state.
Democracy provides the best guarantee of security.
Without democracy, for all its alleged deficiencies, the abyss would yawn before us. European integration is not the means to achieve the security of our continent. It is the wrong route. Integration is being designed in a way that sharply reduces democratic control. If we shoe horn the nations of Europe into an artificial union, we will not abolish nationalism, indeed we risk stirring it up.