Confidence against the current. Why - in this phase of European life when pessimism is all the rage - does this column try to present a less negative image than the Community reality? The answer is simple - I believe that the EU is finally heading in the right direction. The season of wastage, abuse and ruinous budgetary debt is partly behind us. To keep it simple, two categories were the key protagonists in the period of gloom - the world of finance and part of the political class. Now...