This Week is now discussing European democracy.

No-one seems to be aware that German French and Italian democracy only goes back to 1945, Greek and Portugese democracy only goes back to 1974, Spanish democracy only goes back to 1975, eastern European democracy only goes back to 1989.

The tradition of democracy in most of Europe is very short and slight.

So why are they so surprised that there is no real commitment to democracy in the European Union?