President of the commission of the European Community

faced with the degree of commitment required by the Community, in the risks of dilution (...) we need an institutional armour able to resist all attacks."

+ 8 BULGARIA

In a survey, 75.4% is expressed themselves in favour of Bulgaria's entry to the Community (Sofia News February 15, 1990)

+ 6 Felipe Gonzales

Spanish Prime Minister

"(...) I think that the European Community should not be on the defensive. It should go to the offensive, towards a magnificent possibility: the incorporation in a single destiny, of all the countries of the European zone." (Il Corriere della Sera, January 25, 1990)

+ 5 Reszo NYERS

President of the HUngarian Socialist Party

Mr. Nyers has explained that he took in the work of the Congress guided by the conviction that the link between Hungary and the European Community was of vital importance. (MTI, 9 February 1990)

+ 1 Roy HATTERSDLEY

Head of the Labour Parliamentary group

"The European Union which we are building, should not close us in on ourselves, but on the contrary, it should open us increasingly to the countries of East Europe." (Liberation, 24 - 25 February, 1990)

- 1 Douglas HURD

British Foreign Minister

(...) Hurd has asked the European Community to offer the countries of Central and East Europe a made to measure agreement to make room for a gradua expansion in relation to their progress on the way to political and economic reforms. This process which must lead to full membership to the EEC must concern all the countries which desire it. MTI, February 27, 1990)

- 4 Janos KIS

President of the Union of Free Hungarian Democrats

" a flexible confederation is in the long term option and conceivable. Czechoslovakia's and Poland's participation is probable, and Rumania's, desirable." (Liberation, 24 February, 1990)

- 8 Francois MItterand

President of the French Republic

"I propose a project (the European Confederation), let history answer me." The difference, according to Mr. Mitterand, between his own project and that of the "common house of Mr. Gorbachev, is that the latter "is not accompanied by any insitutional proposal" (Le Monde, 7-8 January, 1990)

- 10 Bronislaw GEREMEK

President of the Parliamentary Group of Solidarnosc

"The disaster is that German reunion is proceeding far quicker than European Union, and it is impossible to ask the Germans to wait till the others are ready. It could however, be possible for German unification to take place in the framework of the European reorganization. I am obviously not thinking of the "United States of Europe".

(L'Unita, 17 February, 1990)