National identities and European unity. Gaëtane Ricard-Nihoul was absolutely right to revive Jacques Delors' blueprint for the future of Europe: a Federation of Nation States. She was right because this concept, today more than ever, offers a solution that could square the circle of protecting the national identity, which each people naturally wants to retain, and creating an increasingly effective European unity, which can respond to the political and economic demands of this century and...