Today, Thursday 9 May, is Europe Day. A wonderful opportunity for every village to celebrate the Robert Schuman Declaration inaugurating the ESCS, Franco-German reconciliation, the benefits of the Community method, the new freedoms created by the treaties, European programmes, EU citizenship, the euro, the reunification firstly of Germany and then of the continent, the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the EU and many more things besides.
It is also the date chosen by the President of the...