I have Professor Dusan Sidjanski, president of Geneva's "European Cultural Centre", to thank for anything I can tell my readers about the European beliefs of the president designate of the European Commission, José Manuel Durao Barroso. We all know that the main question mark about him (raised by the European Parliament in particular) related to his European convictions and ambitions (see this column of 1 July). Among the conditions for it to support the new Commission President, the...