"What use is it to take, say, three more countries into the EU, if we’re blocked and can’t proceed with political integration?"

"What use is it to take, say, three more countries into the EU, if we’re blocked and can’t proceed with political integration?"

Those are the recent words used by the French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner. Could someone please ask Gordon Brown and David Miliband why they keep assuring us that "political integration" is not an issue when there is so much evidence to the contrary.