This column is sometimes criticised for being too deferential towards the European institutions and adhering to the principle of if it is a European project, it must be good and those criticising or rejecting it must be the bad guys. I acknowledge that in my opinion it is necessary to be “positive” about Europe and that the tendency to always denigrate it is over the top, inappropriate and dangerous but I can also remember positions that took an opposite line in this column. Today, I...