Jacques Chirac has possibly made an error of communication: the speech he made last week on Europe (see our bulleting of 7 March, p.7) was in the context of his electoral campaign and he made it available on the site of a political movement. This speech thus passed unnoticed internationally and was viewed as an electoral move at home. It does, however, seem to point towards a significant development in French stances along favourable lines towards increasingly strong European integration,...