This year Father Christmas came. He came 24 hours late and only on 7 December but at least this year, the person who had been systematically snubbing them for so many years, did come. This time he came adorned with the features of Martin Schulz, the former President of the European Parliament who had become, that very day, the boss of the German Social Democrat Party. The President of the SPD took out a present from his sack that even the most optimistic Europeans were not expecting and at...