The speech made in Bruges by Mr Joseph Borrell, the president of the European Parliament (summarised by our Editor in Chief Helmut Brüls in EUROPE 9287), represents indispensable reading in the copious dossier on the Constitutional re-launch. He has not come up with just any kind of magic formula: from his very first words, Borrell announces what colour it's going to be, “I haven't got Plan B in my pocket”. It will be up to the next president of the European Council, Angela Merkel, in...