International security

Europe, which the EU is supposed to represent, is fighting a double war that could ravage it beyond recognition -- against Greece within its own borders, and against Russia in Ukraine.

An exhibition in Rome could not -- inadvertently -- be more graphic in defining the zeitgeist: "The Age of Anxiety -- from Commodus to Diocletian." Well, Roman emperors could barely imagine it would get much worse under the EU.

The tantalizingly tense face-off between Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem and new Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has set up the battlefield; the EU won't accept a "unilateral" Greece, and Greece won't accept a bailout extension or the diktats of the troika (EU, ECB, IMF).

Europe slouching towards anxiety and war