This Saturday in Rome, the sixtieth anniversary of the Treaties of Rome will be “celebrated” on the Capitoline Hill by the heads of state and/or government of the countries which are members of the European Union – and determined, it would seem, to remain so. To their minds no doubt will come the distant school memory that “the distance from the Capitoline Hill to the Tarpeian Rock is short”– a fine line separates honour and glory from failure and disaster. History is the...