"All that we have done towards that and all that we still must do, we do for ourselves and not for the EU," he wrote in his answers to the CroatiaNewsOnline.com questionnaire. "I view the unification of Europe as the undertaking of the millennium and no one can be excluded from this process." He cautioned, however, that a united Europe "does not bring milk and honey instantaneously and in order to make use of the EU, we have to prepare for it, which does not only mean talking like Europeans but also acting like ones".
“Sve što smo uradili u tom pravcu i sve što još moramo da uradimo, radimo za sebe, a ne za EU”, napisao je Mesić u svojim odgovorima u upitniku internet stranice CroatiaNewsOnline.com. “Ujedinjavanje Evrope vidim kao milenijumski poduhvat i niko iz tog procesa ne može biti isključen.” On je, međutim, upozorio da ujedinjena Evropa “ne donosi med i mleko odmah i da bi se iskoristilo članstvo u EU, mora se za to biti spreman, što ne znači samo govoriti kao Evropljani, već i ponašati se kao oni”.