Deadlines to keep. Of the three hot topics at last week's European Council- the fight against terrorism, the re-launch of negotiations on the Constitution and the re-launch of the Lisbon strategy- the first turned out to be the least surprising, because everything, or almost everything, was known in advance, after the Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) and Foreign Affairs Councils. The Heads of Government, who had followed their Ministers' work step by step, did not have much to add. This...