"[...] Problems of EU decision-making are not primarily caused by the number of Member States. Again, one only needs to look at history: the EU-9, 10, 12 and then 15 were perfectly capable of sitting on the Community patent or, say, the European Company Statute, for 20 or 30 years. [...]"
Ms. Meglena Kuneva, Member of the European Commission, responsible for Consumer Policy, Berlin, 26 February 26, 2007. For full text, see here.