A new Europe must be built on the ruins of the old | Simon Jenkins

Only a redrafted constitution will revive the EU: there could be no worse end to this saga than imposition of German 'discipline'

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a cliche. Crisis spirals out of control and Armageddon moves to the brink of abyss. "Europe" is too big to fail yet too big to succeed. Each newscast is a crash course in economics, each headline an incitement to suicide. But since we are not at war and few understand what is going on, the rest cannot believe it...