This column, naturally, will only speak of political developments in France with regard to their ramifications for European construction. Domestically, the people of each country make their own decisions on who to elect - it is not up to us to make any judgments, either on the choices of a new member state or of one of the major founding countries. We can, however, try to understand or forecast the effects of choices: we have looked at developments in Hungary, the Czech Republic and...