Last Thursday's colloquium celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the approval by the European Parliament of the "Spinelli Constitution" (see our bulletin of 6 March, p.5) brought back something of the atmosphere of that far-off 14 February 1984 in Strasbourg for nearly three hours, and allowed those taking part physically to feel just how wrong the concept of the European adventure as a purely economic enterprise is. Already in the 1980s, the initial impetus had largely evaporated and, as...