Artificially inflated. We will leave readers time for the news in this bulletin about the outcome of the European Summit to sink in, along with the reactions of protagonists and the decisions made. One aspect, however, requires some clarification, namely the artificially inflated disagreement between Angela Merkel and François Hollande about surveillance of any eurozone nation's potential budget excesses.
It is true that they did not come from the same starting points. The German idea of...