Three characteristics. Slovenia now holds the EU Presidency - an event that deserves to be underlined from three points of view: a) this is the first time that the Council (including Summits), the Committee of Permanent Representatives and all the bodies that depend upon it are presided by one of the member states that joined the EU in 2004; b) after Portugal, it is again a small country; and c) its leaders are aware of the importance of their task as well as of the limits to what can be...