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Year 2000 will be considered by historians as a good year for Europe - To do this it is enough to put aside the results of institutional reform and recall all the rest

Let us take a bit more perspective. To inaugurate the new formula of this section, let us start with a non-conformist assertion: the year 2000 was a good year, or at least a very important year, for Europe. Despite the semi-failure of the Nice Summit. Despite the criticisms often exacerbated and sometimes justified against the princes that govern it. Despite the deceptions provoked by some bitter failures .

Let us take, if you would not mind, a little distance. What will the future...