As the time for decisions approaches, the positions on the constitutional (or institutional) relaunch of the EU are becoming more radical. This is, perhaps, a natural development: in any negotiation, as deadlines loom, each party tries its best to defend the position it started from. If this is the case, it is a mistake, because the negotiations we are facing are not the kind where each participant does whatever they can to force the maximum number of concessions; we should be looking for a...