Verhofstadt and the taste for self-flagellation. When presenting the "Wake-up Call for Europe!" (see our bulletin of 16 October, p.4 and the text in full in No. 2253 of our EUROPE/Documents series), Jacques Delors was questioned by our young Belgian colleague, Anne Blancpain on the draft preamble to the future "Laeken Declaration". In its current state, this text would seem to be a veritable act of accusation against the European Union: distant from its citizens, ineffective, badly managed,...