Can naivety be the font of truth, no matter how unpalatable that truth may be? Let’s be bold and put it to the test: would Hungary now be allowed to join the European Union? In truth, everything suggests that it would be unlikely, even though the realism of Europe’s political groupings has more to do with cynicism than ethics (and this barb is directed as much at the European People’s Party as the Party of European Socialists, given that the democratic credentials of Robert...