If I had to single out the most positive European development I see at the moment, I would choose the progress of the notion of cohesion in the European Union, of the Union as a structured and coherent whole with its own personality. Are these just banalities? Not really, when one hears the next British Prime Minister Gordon Brown say that between the national State and the world, there is nothing, intermediate organisations being for him of no substance. Leaving aside the solemn...