Pat Leahy: A crisis of fumbling dimplomacy
German blunders and Greek incompetence have presented the EU with its biggest-ever crisis
The collapse of the Greek economy and the agonising effects on its society is turning into the worst disaster in the history of the EU. And it may fundamentally change the character of the union forever.
The Greek crisis is a result of, variously, political and administrative failure, belief in the politics of magical thinking, disastrous diplomacy, poor negotiating, myopia, superciliousness, an absence of vision and no sense ...