Long-awaited clarification. The European Council has been the arbiter in a quarrel between enlargement and consolidation, placing the two concepts on an equal footing: neither takes priority but, as both are equally indispensable, there is parallelism. In this column yesterday, I made positive comments on this dialectical subterfuge, stressing that it represents definite progress compared to the time when the Heads of Government decided to agree on taking in new Member States without even...