30/05/2002 (Agence Europe) - During the debate on the theme "the role of small countries in a European Union enlarged to 30 members", organised in Brussels with the association, ""D'un espace l'autre", Fernand Herman, President of the Union of European Federalists - Belgium, declared above all that, "if Europe enlarges in a federal perspective, the small States have nothing to fear". On the other hand, he criticised intergovernmental slide and cited the recent Aznar-Blair-Chirac proposals. The small countries must be "the propagandists of the European federation", said MEP Gérard Duprez for his part (he noted, moreover, that in fifty years' time Turkey will be the largest country in Europe). MEP Jean-Maurice Dehousse said that "we are condemned to federalism to safeguard both unity and diversity". He added that "the more micro-States there are (in the EU), the more the macro-regions will want to make their voice heard".