Advantages of transparency. Is it really naive (not to say a bit crazy…), the efforts this column goes to in order to search out a positive aspect to the current phase of European integration? Possibly. But have the sceptics ever given much thought to the advantages which could grow from this obligation to rebalance the public accounts? Such a commitment is not simply binding and disagreeable in nature: it is also the starting point for getting rid of misunderstandings and mistakes, the...