Before the summer break, Jacques Delors set out his concept of a European vanguard, explaining, on the one hand, the reasons why, according to him, it is essential for Europe to pursue its path to integration and, on the other, its structure and possible ways it could work. As early as the beginning of the year, when he put forward the idea, the project of a Federation of Nation-States had been criticised by: those not in favour in principle of progress towards European integration, those...