Avoiding courting popularity. On the subject of Kosovo, it would be relatively easy to be ironical about the lack of any uniform EU position on a number of essential aspects. There is no European approach when it comes to recognising the new state. That may be true but we ought to know that there is not yet a common foreign policy and that, for the moment, there cannot be one. This may be plaintively deplored by the indignant ones among us who even call for majority decisions to be taken in...