The European Council “conclusions” don't usually figure in my list of favourite things to read and those from last week no more so than the conclusions from previous European Councils. In my rather heated column on Saturday, I indicated two points that reveal, in my opinion, the importance of the summit that has just been concluded: a) the determination to safeguard the Lisbon Treaty by inviting Ireland to move to a rapid reflection on how it can participate in it; b) the refusal to look...