Respect principle of collegiality. The European spirit blows as and when it sees fit. This time it's European Commissioner Charlie McCreevy who provides the proof of this. So much the better for the EU, as its tasks at the European Commission are fundamental: the single market, the basis of European construction, depends upon it. He arrived in Brussels with very set ideas and a determination to make no exceptions to the rule, even when the Commission as an institution was going in another...