WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT / European library

No. 1074

*** MICHEL BARNIER: Se reposer ou être libre. Editions Gallimard (5 rue Gaston Gallimard, F-75328 Paris. Tel: [phone] - fax: [phone] - Internet: www.gallimard.fr). 2014, 231 pp. €11.50. ISBN 978-2-07-014490-7.

The title of this book comes from Thucydides, who, in his History of the Peloponnese War, warned that a choice had to be made between having an easy life or being free. This dilemma is exactly the same today if we are to believe Michel Barnier. Although he was preparing to...