Some reasons for being optimistic. A certain number of Convention Members have not been able to resist the temptation of rejecting en masse the Franco-German institutional document instead of retaining the positive aspects and negotiating the others. Oscar Wilde said that he could, "resist everything except temptation". He certainly has his emulators. I believe that too many reactions to the Chirac/Schröder project were motivated by a single factor, the creation of a full-time and permanent...