Kenny gets his Churchill moment and his own little VE Day

WITH the air of casual racism the French love to deploy against their northern neighbours, Nicolas Sarkozy warned that the European Union was in danger of playing “Belgium roulette” — it’s like Russian roulette, but in this version, all the chambers of the revolver contain a bullet.

Eurozone leaders finally wrestled the gun to the floor yesterday without even performing their customary trick of shooting themselves in the foot.

Tensions were high between Berlin and Paris in the run-up to the summit, with Sarkozy branding Angela Merkel an “aggressive egotist”.