A taste for denying the facts. Defending European construction is currently proving to be a difficult task, which provokes a lot of controversy. It would be so much more simple to go along with the Eurosceptics chomping at the bit and participate in the collective hand-wringing in order to win the approval of certain pundits who would be able to point out that this column has finally buckled to current fashionable trends and is no longer under the spell of Brussels' siren calls. Nonetheless,...