*** EDOUARD BALLADUR: L'Europe autrement. Librairie Arthème Fayard (Paris). 2006, 158 pp, €15. ISBN 2-213-62841-6.
The publisher decided that this book would have a red ribbon around it trumpeting 'At last: a Plan B!' After the earth-shattering French 'no' vote on the Constitution, someone is believed to have found a magic formula for getting Europe out of the current rut and the French out of their contradictions. Leaving aside the clearly commercial nature of the slogan, it is clearly...