'Ware populist rhetoric. Let's not play down the efforts the European Commission made last week (particularly its president José Manuel Barroso) for a balance between the three strands of the Lisbon Strategy (see our bulletin of 10 February, p. 6-8). A week earlier, a section of the European Parliament was less than delighted with the overall document, stating that it had stressed the economic dimension (growth and competitiveness) and neglected the rest; the new documents are given over to...