Strasbourg is the undoubted winner of this week's drama. Without the Parliament, the whistle would not have blown on Mme Cresson. But what Strasbourg did to the Commission, added to the legislative powers it has incrementally gained, seals its place as the seed-bed of a European politics that is finally struggling to be born. The Parliament will never become the seat of government. There will not be, I think, a European government.
Full federation is unnecessary, as well as impossible.
This Parliament is, and forseeably will be, of limited function.