Let us take as our starting point two short quotations. The first is from a speech delivered by Jean Monnet in Washington on 30 April 1952: “We are not uniting states, we are uniting people”. The second is drawn from an interview that Jean-Claude Juncker has just granted to the newspaper Le Monde. Uncertain as to the practical usefulness of urgently reducing Greek debt, the president of the European Commission immediately adds, almost mezza-voce, that to do so nonetheless “would be to...