With a delicious freshness, a close associate of the Greens group in the European Parliament launched a heartfelt attack on the decision made by a majority of MEPs to turn their backs on the idea of creating transnational electoral lists, “And there we had it on 7 February around 12.20pm. I watched the result on the screen with both weariness and distaste. I had the impression that we were living in 1954 and that the European Defence Community (EDC) had failed and that this failure would...