Gradual and well thought-out membership of the European project. There are several reasons to be cheerful about the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the EU and to trust that it will be positive and proactive. Agence EUROPE readers already have the facts at their fingertips for making a preliminary judgement: an overview of the Swedish Presidency's programme and key players' intentions and ideas have been explained at length in our daily newsletters and the special issue “Europe as seen...