My own view is that the European Council, which is a body consisting of 27 part-timers that has concentrated ever more power in its hands, is not an organisation whose present working methods make it capable of the sort of rigorous, sustained and self-critical thought that is needed to restore economic growth at this critical moment in history. Its part-time character explains why the European Council is always running after problems, rather than getting ahead of them.
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