Brussels, 27/11/2001 (Agence Europe) - In a project on the future of Europe in which they are participating alongside Notre Europe (France) and the Bertelsmann Institut (Germany), John Palmer, Director of the European Policy Centre in Brussels, and Paul Gillespie from the Institute of European Affairs in Dublin, have published a report "The Missions and Values of the Europe we need" under the heading "Why Europe?". They explain that the EU could help "ensure a plurality of choices for society, for cultures and for communities within the framework of a global system" and list Europe's multiple identities. They argue that "the history of European integration has been and continues to be marked by a parallel process of devolution of power from centralised administrations to elected regional bodies in most EU countries… one reason why the charge that European integration is about the creation of a centralised "super-state" is so misplaced". "Just as there is not (nor can be) any credible attempt to replace national or other identifies with a monolithic "European" identity, so too the creation of a constitutional democracy in Europe cannot replace but must add to democracy in the Member States. The emerging federal union in Europe is sui generis and cannot be compared with federations created as part of the nation-state building process - as in Australia or the United States". They conclude, "A European "demos" can and must be built" along with a global demos "as a layered system of governance (regional, national, European and global) begins to emerge". In order to avoid "new and even more lethal conflicts in future, multi-level governance must be "securely rooted in democratic and civil society".