Yet the only leaders mentioned in the piece are Barroso, Blair, and Sarkozy. No difficulty in believing they were for Merkel. No one else's opinion seems to matter.
This is just more conventional wisdom from a know-all British journalist (Nicholas Watt). Doesn't matter which newspaper, they all look at Europe through the same kaleidoscope in which the bits always form the same pattern: Brits and the free market know best.
What annoys me is connecting Bliar and Sarkozy with 'reforms' without putting the word "reforms" in scare quotes. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
All part of the narrative that casts free-marketers as the forces of progress and the left as died-in-the-wool conservatives.
