Being realistic. Whilst waiting for the Constitution to be submitted to national ratifications, the new EP to settle in and the new Commission President to be formally appointed, the EU is to return to "current affairs". These are many and weighty. Internationally, the most urgent are negotiations with Mercosur and the WTO's "Doha cycle". If there are no significant results in the coming weeks, these major negotiations will start to stagnate, due to the international calendar (elections in...