The attitude I prefer. My preferred attitude to the new regional and cohesion policy to be proposed by the Commission on Wednesday is that voiced by the Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern (current president of the European Council) in an interview with the newspaper "Le Monde". Here are his answers to the two questions directly related to this policy. The first refers to the effects of this policy on his country: "I still remind my countrymen that Ireland would never have enjoyed all the...