The pleasant month of May brings with it, this year, a faint glimmer of hope, of renewed expectation. No, the many and various reasons for the gloom that has enshrouded the citizens of Europe over past months - and years - has not miraculously dissipated. On the contrary, many seeds of turmoil continue to grow and others are beginning to show. Everything is conspiring, then, to keep the European Union a “disoriented club”, after it “lost its compass, the information that allows its...