Who’d have thought it? A group of 27 world leaders — each with their own agendas,
goals, rivalries and pathologies — finding it difficult to reach agreement with one another? But that unlikely situation is exactly what is happening in Europe right now. Today’s summit was,
like summits before it, supposed to be the one that finally repaired the disintegrating eurozone. But while the roadmap will have some of its contours filled in before tomorrow — including, perhaps, a €110 billion bailout package for
Europe’s banks — there will still be too many remaining uncertainties to march ahead. Angela Merkel’s confrontations with her German parliamentary colleagues aren’t helping the matter. And neither, as Clarissa
wrote yesterday, is the potential collapse of
Silvio Berlusconi’s government.
Into this maelstrom goes David Cameron, who faces the task of being engaged but not too involved.
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