*** PIERRE GERBET (Ed.): Dictionnaire historique de l'Europe unie. André Versaille éditions (Centre Dansaert, 7 rue d'Alost, B-1000 Brussels. Internet: www.andreversailleediteur.com). 2009, 1,213 pp, €49-90. ISBN 978-2-87495-022-3.
Common sense suggests that one has to know where one is coming from in order to know where one is going. In the preface to this historical dictionary of united Europe, Elie Barnavi elegantly confirms this, arguing that "study of the past is indispensable, not...