Guy Verhofstadt's intuition. The election of Jerzy Buzek to the presidency of the European Parliament in the first round by an overwhelming majority (555 votes versus 89 for Eva-Britt Svensson) came as no surprise. We have had much more controversial and complex elections in the past. The result in itself was practically a done deal with confirmation of the agreement between the EPP, Socialist and /Democrats groups on mid-term rotation. The scale of the vote, however, represents at the same...