According to the 200,000 members of the biggest European youth organisations polled by the Heinz Schwarzkopf Foundation, “exemplary” politicians do exist. By a wide majority, they selected the Finnish foreign minister, Alexander Stubb, who was awarded the Schwarzkopf-Europa-Preis in Berlin on 3 October 2008 for representatives of a “new generation of European decision-makers”. The prize was launched in 2003, and the first prize-winner was Judge Carla Del Ponte. Forty-year-old...