You didn't have to be called Nostradamus to understand. Given the developments in the preparatory work on EU institutional reform, prediction had become easy: the Nice Summit could only lead to a rather mediocre reform, but sufficient to continue, rekindle even, accession negotiations and to enable the European Union to function correctly. We had no need of Nostradamus to write in this section, at a time when the Summit was beginning its work and as the hysteria of apocalyptic forecasts was...