Creating the event. With just a few exceptions, commentators have considered that the most spectacular outcome of the recent Summit between the EU and Russia was the decision to study the use of the euro in reciprocal trade and economic relations, thinking foremost of oil and gas. For the second time, Romano Prodi has thus created the event where Russia is concerned: last year through his initiative on supplies, this time by that on the means of payment. The final declaration only devotes a...