How will Europe get into gear?

The editorialist Jacques Hillion considers that "without a constitution or a treaty to give it back some impetus, the European Union will continue to hobble along on three legs. We are being given a chance with the German presidency that has just commenced and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel's desire to restart the machine, despite the French electoral agenda's preventing any major decisions from being taken. The euro, cherry on the bitter European cake, is under the scrutiny of Europeans although it is a technical success. Otherwise said, Europe still has a lot on its plate and had better tuck in if it is going to get back some strength and prove wrong whatever the most pessimistic and Euro-sceptic might say against its capacity for integration, which is real, now and in the future, for its own good and for ours."

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