Reality as a basis. Another comment of the Summit of the Three Big Countries- Germany, France, United Kingdom- is there any need ? Perhaps, as long as its objective is realistic and modest. No great wars of words for or against 'directoires', on the arrogance of some and the bad faith of others and so on, but a few considerations based on reality:
1. The letter signed by Jacques Chirac, Gerhard Schröder and Tony Blair (reproduced in Nr 2360 of our series EUROPE/Documents, annexed to our...