The step has been taken. Pascal Lamy has taken the step. He is holding a high-level conference next Wednesday 15 September on the concept of "collective preferences", opening the work himself. And so, a few weeks before he leaves his post, the debate on the new and highly controversial concept will change in nature, leaving behind it the stage of informal, even secret, documents and sententious discussions between universities, to take on an institutional character.
First of all, we need to...