Thank you Ireland! How could I be anything other than grateful to the Irish Presidency of the Council? I now feel less isolated in my positive and "reasonably optimistic" attitude on Europe's prospects. There is nothing rhetorical or demagogic in Ireland's attitude: no sensationalist promises, no blind optimism, nothing like those who jump up and down shouting "Europe! Europe!", and whom General de Gaulle ridiculed. It is the adjective "positive" which best describes the Dublin spirit, in my...