I am probably going to make a number of readers shudder, but I think that, no matter what eventually comes from the debate on Tuesday and Thursday's vote in the European Parliament on the “Bolkestein Directive”, what is happening is a victory for European democracy. A complicated and in part abstruse proposal put forward by the previous Commission in a climate of general indifference later provoking one of the fiercest and most open debates that Europe has ever known, with impassioned...