Solidarity, the essential concept. Jacques Delors does not approve of the “embittered of Europe” who, for example, oppose the Constitution because it does not correspond entirely to their expectations (see this column of yesterday), but this does not mean that he is inclined to accept just anything. There are compromises which are accepted to avoid impasses, but there are unacceptable things which, if allowed, would disfigure Europe. The example he emphasised during his sojourn in...