Will Angela Merkel Save the European Ideal?
If the E.U. is viewed as a remote and punitive body, one that can’t adjust its workings for a member country where a quarter of the population is out of work, its prospects are grim.
.. For Europe to return to the vision of shared prosperity on which it was founded, it needs to confront its debt crisis in a manner that offers all similarly afflicted countries—Ireland and Portugal, for example, as well as Greece—something more than the prospect of endless austerity.