Greek threat to break ranks frightens EU elite

The Greeks, credited with creating western civilisation, may have saved it in a near cataclysmic moment for Europe, more profound than the aftermath of 9/11.

As Churchill is to have said about the price of democracy being eternal vigilance, the survival of Europe as one of the world’s five powers in the coming decades will be about a series of steps already in train, being carefully implemented.

Having scared the living daylights out of themselves and the Greeks, there is a sense that the main EU actors have returned home to lick their wounds, contemplate on the sight of the abyss and resolve not to come so close again.