New order | Editorial

presseurop Friday 3rd February, 2012

This time around, there was no question of a last-ditch summit. Nonetheless, the 30 January European Council meeting will have far reaching consequences. Twenty five member states – in other words the EU without the UK and the Czech Republic, which refused to be involved – adopted the fiscal and budgetary pact that Germany, seconded by ...

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