EU birthday declaration is banal and feeble

A week has passed now since the Berlin Declaration was published marking the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome. Already it shows signs of being forgotten. If you are looking for a parchment scroll to hang on your wall for the benefit of your grandchildren, you are likely to be disappointed.

No great beer steins or giant Staffordshire mugs will be manufactured to incorporate its ringing and celebratory phrases, no images made of its signing in stained glass. You will not, I predi...