To this can now be added the related issues of energy and the environment, as examples of areas where it is self-evident that EU governments should be co-operating (though what is really needed is global co-operation).
Perhaps Russell's vision of global co-operation looks, to us, more like fantasy than prophesy.
National politics is back, after some desperate global co-operation to fight the financial crisis.
Global co-operation was decisive in arresting last year's financial meltdown.
This spirit of global co-operation must be carried into 2010.
But there is also a lesson in global co-operation here.
Asia's leaders must devise bold and innovative national policies while pursuing regional and global co-operation.
But the latter in turn requires a new kind of global co-operation.
Globalisation has made all countries more interdependent, in turn requiring greater global co-operation.
That means investment and it means global co-operation, especially in the areas of finance and technology.
But Mr Sarkozy was surely right that future global co-operation will take different, ad hoc forms.
