3.02.2009

As the crisis bites, splits open up in Europe

Good. Rats in a sack. Hopefully they bite each other to death. - Ed.

Meeting in Brussels for a long Sunday lunch, European Union leaders were supposed to clear the air after weeks of jibes, sneers and slurs over who is to blame for the economic crisis. But after a three-hour meal of goat cheese, beef stew and apple crumble, they emerged as ratty as ever, barely concealing their long-standing gripes and graphically revealing how far the E.U. is from any coordinated response to the downturn.

Read more @ TIME (of all places)

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