I would just like to add to yesterday's column with a few lessons that can be drawn from events of recent weeks.
The great fragility of personal alliances. Some Heads of Government have recently given the impression that they are basing their European policy largely on their personal relations with their colleagues from other Member States. They should have learnt by now how transient and unsteady alliances based on this criterion are, and that they can by no means replace the defining of...