For the European Union, the summer break has, this year once again, offered little in the way of respite. It would be very odd if it were any other way: the EU is a living body politic, a sort of twenty-eight headed Hydra, with the one that is currently engaged in cutting itself off among the more active over the last few weeks. We can always count on a few stories, often baneful, sometime frankly depressing.
This summer, among the stories were the crisis over the fipronil-tainted eggs...