In an interview published in the Luxembourg newspaper Le Quotidien on 18 April 2005, Vassilios Skouris, President of the Court of Justice of the European Communities since 7 October 2003, explains the role and the development of the institution over which he presides, assesses its work in 2004 — the year in which the Union was enlarged to include ten new Member States — and outlines his expectations for the future.