The euro teeters on the brink of collapse. The deal trumpeted by France and Germany looks ever-more rickety. Countries that initially backed it are beginning to have second thoughts. The idea of German-enforced austerity has made even resolute Europeans nervous. They have spotted that the proposed treaty is at heart a political stunt engineered by Mr Sarkozy to save himself from defeat in the French elections next year.
Ah, even Sarkozy, who is surely superior to alternatives, is willing to live under German financial rules if it means he gets to sit in the palace.
Yet as France angles for political survival by working with the Germans who promise order, resistance is starting in the rest of Europe.
I'm guessing that if this fails, the French will claim that Resistance 2.0 was active all along.
(And no offense is meant to the Germans with the historic comparisons. This is a power thing and not a war crimes thing.)
