Backward boy scouts? The virulent attack by the President of the EU Council, Louis Michel, against the weight, in his opinion excessive, which is granted today to non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and in general to organisations, which claim to be from "civil society", caused a small storm in certain Community circles. A reaction from the political establishment was in the air, in the face of certain distortions of NGO representation compared to those of elected people. The honesty of...