An unaccommodating analysis. When Pierre de Boissieu speaks of the EU Council, he needs to be listening to with care, for at least three reasons. The first: he is its Deputy Secretary General, he thus knows what he is speaking about "from the inside". Second reason: in previous years, as France's Permanent Representative, he took an active part in all the work of the Council. Third reason: his frankness is almost legendary, MEPs who heard him last month speak for almost two hours (see the...