The two first days of the Nice Summit, namely Thursday and Friday, the 7 and 8 December, have nearly been entirely dedicated to issues other that EU institutional reform, that is to say to economic and social issues, to issues directly linked to the Europe of citizens, the creation of the area of freedom, security and justice, to common security and defence policy (ESDP), the negotiations with the accession candidate countries and to certain aspects of EU external relations.

These works have...