Euro crisis - Division will not lead to a solution

TAOISEACH Enda Kenny’s meeting with opposition leaders yesterday, to brief them on agreements reached at last week’s EU summit, was entirely appropriate.

Our situation, and that of every member of the eurozone and of the wider European Community, is so very precarious that something approaching national-government collegiality is called for.

Sadly, the meeting did little to inspire the kind of confidence, or even reassurance, needed right now. How could it? Once again confusion seems to have choked optimism.