The current flurry of plans for re-activating the constitutional treaty confirms what has been obvious since last summer and what I had defined as “Constitution nostalgia”. There is no shortage of projects that are diverse or of ideas that are unrealistic or from the realm of fantasy, when they are not downright bizarre. Also, those who welcome the deadlock are still there. They are still present in ultra-nationalistic circles and in some Member States, if not elsewhere. The first...