Treaty of Lisbon (No. 6)

I shall make a little progress before giving way. I do not particularly mind whether the principal magnet for those countries moving towards democratic standards and norms was the prospect of joining the world's largest single market and thereby securing prosperity, or the fact that the EU is now a beacon of modernity, because the engagement of the EU in countries such as Bosnia and Kosovo will be benign in years to come, as it represents an effective deployment of soft power.