Here are three considerations which add to and clarify previous comments.
A. People forget. The invitation from the President of the European Council Jean-Claude Juncker to recover the tone and level of European debate (see this column of yesterday) did not come as a surprise. Some of his previous comments had anticipated this to a certain extent, and among the huge pile of papers I had cut out, I found his declaration in “Le Soir”, which I had annotated with the words “And...