When a colloquium brings together a large number of those who have contributed to the construction of a united Europe (Jacques Delors, Etienne Davignon, Jacques Santer, Karl Lamers, Jean-François Poncet, Wim Kok to name but a few) and those who have similar responsibilities today (Josep Borrell, Guy Verhofstadt, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen and others) in addition to Pascal Lamy and Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, currently engaged in other tasks, lessons, rather than uniform conclusions, should be drawn....