EUs Plethora of Presidents

The Economist article, here, opens as follows after an apt cartoon: KING SOLOMON, relates the Bible, acted wisely and decisively when faced with two women claiming the same baby: his threat to cut it in half swiftly revealed the real mother. The European Union is different. Faced with two rival plans, its approach is to say yes to both, delay a reckoning for years and then throw money at the compromise. If EU leaders were running Solomon's court they would award both women custody, build parallel nurseries with public funds and review progress in 2014. As a strategy, this has a big flaw: it does not work........