Copenhagen has too little clout

In the midst of the euro crisis it doesn't make sense to give the EU Council presidency to a country that doesn't belong to the monetary union, the liberal daily La Stampa points out: "First Poland, now Denmark. In the midst of the euro storm a country that is not a member of the Eurozone and therefore lacks the necessary clout to effectively intervene in the European debt crisis is assuming the EU presidency. At the top of the agenda for the next six months is the intergovernmental agreement for introducing a fiscal union. This issue affects above all the countries of the Eurozone. Copenhagen wants to mediate between the club of euro states and the countries with their own currency. ... But the Merkel-Sarkozy duo will continue to make the key decisions - much to the dismay of the other countries, especially since the decisions of the duo appear to mainly follow the dictates of domestic politics."

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