On a short visit to Brussels, the former French minister for the economy, Emmanuel Macron, sketched out his vision of a decentralised process for a new-style European Union.
"We will get nowhere fast using the intergovernmental method", said Macron (who may stand in the French presidential elections of spring 2017) on Thursday 20 October. He went on to say that the results of the informal meeting of 27 countries in Bratislava were the proof that the European Council has no part to play in a...