If we were to talk in this Beaconsabout what is in the news, it would be about Barroso or Oettinger, Orbán or Erdogan, or Theresa May in her stand-off with judges who have been dragged through the mud by the tabloid press. But that is not going to be the case because, as Commission Vice-President Timmermans said in an excellent interview with French daily Ouest-France, the reason that nationalistic and populist forces speak so much in Europe today about “a glorious past … that has...