Unfortunately, the idea that the euro is yesterday's problem is a dangerous figment. In reality, Europe's leaders are sleepwalking through an economic wasteland.
They are the writers who largely formed our vision of an existential English-speaking wasteland where people have been cut off from one another and live in an atmosphere of emotional strangulation and despair.
While inhospitable now, billions of years ago, the landscape of this dusty rock was similar to that of Earth, but somewhere along the way, it became a red wasteland.