By all accounts, Jacques Delors is concerned at the turn taken by relations between the European Commission and the Council. He is not in the habit of publicly criticising a Commission decision; yet he did the appeal to the Court of Justice against the Council on the application of the Stability Pact (see our bulletin of 15 January, page 9). Coming as it does from the person with the longest experience as President of the Commission (ten years) and who gave it the fame and splendour that he...