Act V, Scene 1: In his affluent home in the suburbs of London, one of the most pro-European Tories of the European Parliament reflected on the contentious fate of Europe. “Let's just take a bird's eye view of the political landscape of Europe, when it comes to reaction to the EC. The Maastricht Treaty in the last few months has triggered a nationalist response in most of the member-states – not all, but most of them. That backlash has to do with a perception of the national identity – that the national culture is being threatened by things foreign. It is often not more specific than that. There is this feeling of minority cultures being swamped by something terrible. And this something terrible is linked to Europe, because the feeling is that all of a sudden there is too much Europe happening.”