Explanations and incentives were par for the course. It was not from that point of view that the event held last week by the European College of Parma is worthy of comment. Bringing together, as it did, two vice-presidents of the European Commission, Jacques Barrot and Franco Frattini, as well as figures such as Etienne Davignon, Mario Monti, Antoinette Spaak, Martin Bangemann and many others, and including a written message from Jacques Delors, it was clear from the start that its results...