Financing the European model of society. What struck me most in the Verhofstadt memorandum on the Lisbon Strategy (summarised on page 17 of our bulletin of 18 February; complete text in Nr. 2398 of our EUROPE/Documents series of 19 February) is the tax plank. It is true that the Belgian Prime Minister stressed the unitarian nature of his plan, which is valid as a whole and cannot be unravelled into five separate measures, but the tax strand is the most innovative and, potentially, the most...