Europe at a stand-still

Françoise Crouïgneau presents a rather negative report on the European summit that was held in Brussels on the 14th and 15th of December. "The heads of State and government pooled together their good will in an attempt to square the circle: to reform the institutions that, numbered at 25, are obstructing one another in the extraction of the substantive marrow from the bones of the Constitution project rejected by the French and the Dutch. But nobody is kidding them self. ... After having waited for the German presidency [that will begin on January 1st, 2007], we will no doubt now have to wait for the French presidency in order to evaluate chances of consolidating the very fundaments of the European edifice. Can we at least nurture the hope of economic advancement in the absence of any dream of international strategic break-through? The results of the Brussels summit are, frankly, worrying. ... Not the slightest bit of progress has been made on the issues at hand."

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