With information venturing onto ground where post-truth has become king and where lies, deliberate or by omission, have effectively become the rule, where does Europe stand? From what we can see, as far as its institutions are concerned, with the catering corps rather than on the front line. Let us not blame the European Council on that: all that it knows and recognises of the press is what traipses around along with the president or prime minister of each of the twenty eight (soon to be...