I almost want to quote the maxim attributed to Mr Talleyrand: that which is excessive does not count. I refer to some of the more extravagant comments on the result of the European Council: the political Europe is born, Europe has saved the world from the financial crisis, Europe shows the way to resolve the problem of climate change, Mr Sarkozy should be made the President of the Union for life... let us not take things too far. Europe has done what it could and what it had to do, to the...