It would be easy…It would be easy (and gratifying for my “European image”) to write that Jean-Claude Juncker's compromise on financial perspectives for 2007-13 is too restrictive and that the minimum acceptable would be what was voted for by the European Parliament last week. But the situation is more complex. Parliament has done a remarkable job on this occasion. It resisted the temptation of cattle dealing and demagogy and approved a budgetary framework that is lower than the...