Gideon Rachman of the Financial Times:
"Europeans often look like irrelevant whiners. They complain about the American response – but they are powerless to alter events themselves. Irrelevance is not particularly dignified or noble. But it could still be the logical choice for Europe. Arguably, the EU has achieved a sort of nirvana. It is too strong to be attacked; and too weak to be asked to sort out the rest of the world’s problems. As Harry Lime might have pointed out, Europe has become a giant Switzerland."
