One year ago …To grasp the full significance of this Thursday and Friday's European Council, one has to compare the today's situation with what it was like a year ago. The situation was simple: the Lisbon Strategy was deadlocked because of a lack of binding instruments and Community procedures; a European energy policy was thought to be illusory, a dream, since each member state was acting on its own behalf. Today, a) the benefits of the Lisbon Strategy (revised wisely, without promising...