Anyone inclined to despair at the European Union’s headlong rush towards statehood should visit Poland. It is impossible, when one talks to the Poles, to imagine that having survived Hitler’s and Stalin’s attempts to destroy them, they will allow their nation to be drafted out of existence by Valéry Giscard d’Estaing and the other notables who are even now completing a new European constitution.
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