Although he has long discarded his anti-American baggage, Mr Solana must know that the alliance which is now promoting democracy in the ex-communist world has not alwaysinsistedon democracy within its own ranks.
The paper had lied and was still doing so, he said, when they claimed they'd got the story from a "man on the street" and not, as he hasalwaysinsisted, from someone on his son's medical staff breaching their duty of medical confidentiality.