Despite the disappointments. “I am proud of this Europe which bears no relation to what was my ideal”. I feel that this sentence encapsulates the spirit behind the speech Jacques Delors made last week in Paris at an event in favour of the European Constitution, organised by the European Movement. Those who followed his exploits as President of the Commission from 1985 to 1994, and afterwards, know just how far off the EU has drifted from what he would have wanted it to be: the heads of...