Swimming against the stream. The series of discouraging, pessimistic and, indeed, defeatist positions taken with regard to the situation in Europe, continues. I can understand the dissatisfaction and concerns but it is without any hesitation that I go in the opposite direction to affirm that the ongoing transformations do not mean the failure of European construction or its break-up, quite the contrary. For the first time in many years, the European Union is pushing ahead with the...