The real cause. The rather lively exchange of views between President Chirac and Prime Minister Tony Blair (see our Bulletin on 30 October p 11) would signify nothing out of the ordinary other than the fact that there is a fundamental divergence on an essential aspect of European civilisation, that of its agriculture. What is at stake is too important to restrict ourselves to observing that even the top leaders are not beyond using a language that is far from being polite at times but which...