Breaking-in period over now. The Belgian Presidency of the Council, which has just begun, will definitively consolidate the EU's institutional structure, resulting from the Lisbon Treaty. The Spanish Presidency, which has just come to an end, was already part of the same legal framework that covered a transition period, during which the new system was just being broken in: Parliament was getting used to its new powers (it did so with gusto and astonishing swiftness); the triple role of Ms...