 Let me just jump in here, first of all because I've sat there for a long time playing extremely bad chess, and secondly because I still don't understand what we're actually talking about. When I say je suis européen, then I mean really, if I'm honest, a feeling. I feel at home under European sky, I feel at home with the landscapes, with the reflexes of the people, with the turns of phrase, I also feel at home with European values. And as a philosopher, no I cannot give you an ultimate metaphysical nail to which I could nail them, but I feel at home with them. Now that is one part of the conversation. If we talk about the European Union and debt repayments, then I'm, first of all, I think much more pragmatic because I think without the European Union we would probably not be able to solve or indeed face any of the problems that come our way in terms of climate change, international money markets, migration movements, they're all transnational problems, no nation state can deal with them, so we need this kind of thing. But you say there really is a European spirit. And that is because you're talking about an elite. There is no real European spirit among all Europeans because this European Union is in a terrible crisis of political legitimacy. It has none. It has not worked for it. That has been too elitist. Look at this ridiculous moment with the European constitution when basically a former French president was asked to draw up a nice constitution which was almost the 200 pages long and very complex and then people were given the choice between saying yes or being bad Europeans. And if you voted wrong you had to vote again until you voted right. And that's not how any democracy works. We could have voted a constitutional assembly and let them get on with it and draw up a constitution that would have been our constitution, that would have been remotely democratic. So I think we're really talking about two completely different things because when I go back to the first part, the feeling European part, then I'm not at all sure whether Norwegians and Greeks and Portuguese and Poles feel the same. In their practices, in their daily life, in their beliefs, how much really does connect us? I think that's an open question. Yes, we have a history of wars. Yes, we have a history of Christianity. Yes, we all inhabit the same small appendix of Asia. But does that mean that we really have a common identity? You know, here would be a nice task for the European Union. You name it, you foster such an identity. But at the moment it's failed spectacularly. I think you're very right. But I think there's one moment when we can all unambiguously feel that European identity and that's when we're outside of Europe. When I lived in the Middle East, I realized I was a European. And when I came back to Europe five years later, I actually wasn't so sure. It's easier to feel European in Jerusalem or in Tokyo than in Rome or even Berlin these days. I think it's the only place where you can feel European outside Europe. The reason why I participate in this debate is first of all because there's no such a thing as European nationalism. I think nothing good can come out of nationalism. And I despise anti-European feelings a bit more than the European feelings. But when you ask me why are you European? That's my answer would be because I moved a few years ago to New York. And what else can I be in New York but European? I have no other choice. And I'm quite happy about it. I'm not sure. I like many things Adam said because I love your provocations. I think they're really smart and intelligent. But you said something about the re-armament of Europe. Well first of all Adam now of course did re-arm his country despite early promises. But I think what you really wanted to say is that the peace is not only kept by the European Union but also by the United States of America, if I understood you well. Let me finish for one second. And that's also why I think this whole question about feelings or whether we love Europe or not, it's all a bit gratuitous. In the end the question is are we willing to die for Europe? And if not, what does it mean to have this feeling of being European or not? And to be honest if you ask me are you willing to die for Europe or are you willing to die for the United States of America without idealizing the US, without thinking that this is a better place I would be tempted to say I would rather die for the US than for Europe because I think the continuation of Europe is in Canada and the US. If I were a member of a minority in Europe... I don't get that. You have to explain that because I don't understand what you're saying. Well of course the European culture is American culture. You cannot separate it. And I think in many ways the better place to live for many minorities Fritz Bokerstein is in the audience and I disagree with him on many things he said. But a few years ago in New York he gave a talk and he said an interesting and important thing. He said people vote with their feet. So the fact that so many people despite the criticism of the US would like to go to the US is telling. Yesterday I talked to an Afghan asylum seeker. He said I asked him why did he come to the Netherlands. He said because I could not find a human trafficker who would bring me to the US. I would have rather gone to the US but I could not find one. So that's what I mean. I think in many ways if I would be a Muslim in Europe I would want to go to Canada or the US. I think this is the safe for the better place. This is also why I think this I come back now and then you can finish to your comment. I think nobody will all love Europe but in the end nobody is willing to die for Europe. There's a movie made by Clint Eastwood came out a couple of months ago American Sniper about a sniper fighting in New York. It's unthinkable that we would have a movie German Sniper for historical reasons even Dutch. European Sniper. We had the ISAF in Afghanistan. According to American soldiers I've been as you know a few times to Afghanistan. ISAF stands for I saw Americans fighting. And this basically what you were saying really we have peace because Americans are willing to die for us and are willing to fight for us and we are not willing to do it for good reasons. Dying is not a nice thing but it is a bit problematic that we are talking about Europe without being willing to die for it. I agree. But I have to say that the one place where you really feel European is in the American Midwest. You know forget Tokyo. My view is a little complicated because I've got into Europe via the United Kingdom and before the European Union was really created properly. So I'm not at all surprised about the development at the moment to see that country go back to itself because it's never left itself. So my job there was to import continental culture to the UK coming from being born in the Middle East. So the very complicated route in there. So for me being a European is a strange notion. When I was 12 I said to my parents I don't believe that Europe exists. You have to take me there. I want to see it. Otherwise I'll never believe it exists. I've never been. And then I was brought to the heart of Europe to Munich. That was really the heart of Europe. And my country is culture. So I came here because I had a cultural calling and desire to connect with European culture. But at that time culture for me was represented by Holy Fathers to use a Christian term. It was basically poet, artist, specific people. A lot of them were still alive. I was kind of really coming on a pilgrimage towards something very specific. It's very interesting because of course this discussion is very political now but I think what is also another level of the discussion is the destruction of culture through the sheer drive of modernism and how in fact between the birth of Mozart and the death of Stockhausen we have an era of culture which I would call a culture of specifics. And after that we are entering into an era where everything is now flat. Everything is dominated by a kind of digital energy which we are meant to all bow to. And I often try to kind of put myself now that I have a small child who's born here and has to look back towards the east instead of me looking to the west. It gave me thoughts about what do I really want my child to... what kind of cultural calling would I like my child to have taken my own journey. And I'm very, very concerned, extremely concerned because I think that in the middle of this European discussion there's also a discussion about the disintegration of what I call the culture of specifics into a morass of something very vague in which we are meant to... One of the concepts that changes completely is the concept of curiosity because of course an intellectual is a curious person. It's a person who wants to find out something about something they don't know then relate it to other levels of knowledge and create an interaction and a debate like the one we're having now and culture is born from there. And so this curiosity notion has changed completely because of course our curiosity is on our computers now and it's kind of boiled down to something... to a completely different form of energy.