Romano Prodi was clear. The European Commission takes it for granted that in future there will be as many European Commissioners as Member States. In its "opinion" earlier this year, it set out two formulae: either a Commissioner of the nationality of each Member State, or a Commission of twenty member, with egalitarian rotation. But at his latest press conference, Romano Prodi was explicit: it is the first formula that has won the day within the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC), so much...