Concerning a return to budgetary balance in Member States. The problems of the Stability Pact and of the timetable for the return, in all Member States, to a balance in national budgets (see this heading in yesterday's EUROPE), made their impromptu entry into the electoral campaign in France, when President Chirac declared that there was no formal commitment on France's part to reach this balance in 2004. But probably sometime later. This was the proof, if such were needed, that the Heads of...