An encouraging success. The new Member States have got through an extra phase of their integration into the Community institutions. In their hearings before the committees of the European Parliament, the Commissioners from the countries of central and eastern Europe, Cyprus and Malta were all "unanimously accepted", and this result will doubtless be confirmed in Strasbourg by the plenary on 5 May. I am fully aware that the candidates left Mr Swoboda with "an image of low-profile...