The changes in the allocation of cases between the various formations of the Court are also worthy of mention.

In short, the matter deserves our full attention, but in these difficult judgments it is a relief to note the great advances made by technology, which today provides hauliers – that hard-working, industrious group – with increasingly comfortable vehicles, fitted with fans, mangers and drinking systems with water for rehydration.

The claim that a new prime minister means a new government deserving of quick electoral confirmation is spurious, to say the least, as many Canadians have agreed in recent days in their insistence that certain questionable practices at the time the Prime Minister, as Minister of Finance and Vice-President of Treasury Board, was a front-row witness to a culture of corruption be explained to their satisfaction so that an appropriate judgment can be made on facts, not on uninspiring and unconvincing beatings of the breast and the wearing of ill-fitting hair shirts.

In addition to these judgments by the CJEC and ECHR, Amnesty International raises other issues in relation to criminal procedures.

There are many other problem areas which require some pragmatic evaluation if they are to be practicable.

Greece is being judged, just as the first countries in EMU were judged, and this judgement accords Greece the position which it deserves, the position which it could have taken up back then, when it could have become a member of EMU along with everyone else, but which it failed to take up because of the weakness of its government.