When I am at home I support my local German football club. When Germany plays as a national side, I support the German team. The problem is that Britain is a society totally geared to winning or losing, and that is how they approach EU summits - like a football game. That is wrong. What is not being understood in Britain is that within Europe we want everyone to win.
People seem to connect the idea of a constitution with a superstate.
Look, the policy-making power of anything in the world that you might want to call a superstate is defined by the size of its budget. The budget of the EU is limited by treaty to 1.27 per cent of the member states' GDP, of which it uses less than one per cent. Europe is not a federal state as we understand it. Nor is it a federation of states. It is the only way in which our nation states can express themselves in a globalised world.