Difficult “dual message”. At the outset, the dominating feature of the European Council should have been the signing of the treaty on the governance of the economic and monetary union. Priorities have, however, changed and the message heads of state and government want to send out on Friday has become dual: alongside discipline, economic recovery, each with the same degree of priority and importance. The aim is, then, to make clear that austerity is not the only prospect for Europe. This...