Covid-19 may have hung like a sword of Damocles over the inauguration date of the Conference on the Future of Europe, but there was nothing to stop the institutional trio from making sure that the preparations were all in order. It would have been a pretext to quietly forget about the whole dossier. A pretty poor pretext, as 2020 showed that even a pandemic cannot prevent major decisions from being made on far more complex subjects. There’s something else behind it.
Many governments, if...