I read on the website of a Brussels-based reporter that in a TV interview with Belgian television, the prime minister of Luxembourg, who is also the chair of the Eurogroup, Jean-Claude Juncker, criticised people who still believe in the idea of a “United States of Europe”. Juncker is well-known as a Europhile so his comments came as a surprise. One wonders how Guy Verhofstadt would react, as chair of the Liberal Group at the European Parliament and author of a book entitled “The United States of Europe”, which follows firmly in the footsteps of ideas cherished by Victor Hugo, Jean Monnet and Winston Churchill. In the currently twenty-seven country European Union, of course, United States of Europe is used to characterise a certain myth, a vision for mobilising people to build Europe against an uncertain backdrop, rather than an actual political target. Why not ask Europeans what they think? A Eurobarometer poll could ask the following question: “Some people today still support the long-term aim of forming a United States of Europe in the face of the United States of America, China, Russia, etc. Do you believe that our children will be living in a United States of Europe by the middle of the century, say by 2050?” (J.R./transl.fl)