Progress that arouses little enthusiasm. Respecting a programme on the whole whilst attaining one's established objectives does not seem to be a winning formula in the world of politics. No surprises, no dramatic turn of events… Summarising the mood prevailing at the Barcelona Summit, a Brussels daily printed the following headline: "Pale summit and dazzling demonstration". So what made the biggest impression was not the EU's progress towards the European model of society and the 2010...