It was the political icon, Willy Brandt, who would wonder somewhat out loud that in certain circumstances, “country comes before party”. The time has now, perhaps, come for a German political leader to further extend this reasoning by adding, “the European Union comes before country” and therefore inscribing their ideas in the fertile tracks left behind by Montesquieu, “If I knew that something would be useful to me and prejudicial to my family, I would reject it...