Crucial reform. Reform of European development aid policy is significant proof of the vitality of European construction, which I have been attempting to underline in response to the excessive accusations and pessimism levelled against it. I did this, for example, yesterday when I wrote about reform of the common agricultural policy (CAP). The general atmosphere encourages euroscepticism with a public that is weary (and is encouraged to be so) but the EU is striving to shift and look to the...