There was one little sentence in President Juncker’s state of the union address before the European Parliament in Strasbourg on 13 September that seems, curiously, to have escaped the notice of those newspapers that always jump at any opportunity for a dig at ‘Brussels’ and the European institutions, ‘so detached from the citizens’, that rule over it (see EUROPE 11861). But this little sentence was basically the President of the Commission thumbing his nose at the 27 capitals:...