A year which will be positive. The year that is just beginning will be difficult but generally positive for Europe. How come this statement when European pessimism is still dominant and fashionable? Because the EU last year laid the basis for recovery and created instruments to overcome the loopholes and difficulties which made the previous years so arduous. The way is laid. It doesn't please everyone, especially those groups who have to renounce, at least in part, the privileges of the past...