EU’s time is running out

European leaders have still not got a hold of the crisis that has been in place since 2008. They need to take action now, or else, writes former British prime minister Gordon Brown

THE poet Shelley once said of an elderly relative that he had “lost the art of communication but not, alas, the gift of speech”.

Europeans might be forgiven for applying this rebuke to their politicians who have expended thousands of words in failing to explain or resolve Europe’s three-year economic crisis.