What is to be expected, from the European point of view, from this new year? It might be wise not to expect anything very positive. After all, the problems and dangers of 2016 are still there. The rotten egg that is Brexit still has to be cracked. The eurozone continues to sit precariously, pulled in one direction by those who see themselves as the intransigent guardians of budgetary orthodoxy and, in the other, by those, like the Commission, who believe it is time to cut some slack. All...