A turning point in Europe's institutional history. The EU has taken a considerable step forward on the road leading to the Summit of Laeken, and beyond. The consensus of principle reached on Sunday in Genval by the Foreign Ministers on the Convention and Forum as procedures for preparing the new Intergovernmental Conference, finally put to one side the traditional form of IGCs as the only assembly that could revise the Treaty. Henceforth, the definition of the aims and tasks of Europe,...