Something happened in the European Union before the Easter break, over and above the agreement in principle on the Financial Perspectives which I have already commented upon in this column (see issue 9170). My first observation concerns the ripples spotted at last in the waters of the big debate on the relaunch of the constitution and the EU's borders. I will return later to the position taken by the European People's Party (EPP), Jacques Delors' speech to the Socialist Group at the European...