The EU favours stability over democracy. It has refused to back anti-Castro dissidents; it is pursuing a policy of «constructive engagement» with the ayatollahs; and it seems positively to resent Israel’s status as the only parliamentary democracy in the region. Americans sometimes accuse the EU of hypocrisy when it cuddles up to Third World tyrants, […]

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