Last week, after the IGC session, President Silvio Berlusconi announced the participants' "absolute unanimity" on "providing the EU with an appropriate defence policy and an adequate military force". In his personal press conference, Jacques Chirac spoke even more solemnly of a military force which had been accepted as an indispensable instrument for a European foreign policy, for a Europe which can make its voice heard in the world. Both of them, like Javier Solana and others who expressed...