The European Council is unavoidable. Opening the academic year 2002-2003 of the College of Europe in Brugge (see this section in yesterday's bulletin and the text in full in our EUROPE/Documents series No. 2283, annexed to this bulletin), Valery Giscard d'Estaing placed emphasis on the role that Heads of State and Government had played and do play in the construction of a united Europe. He noted that Jean Monnet had himself proposed regular meetings at that level and that he had then backed...