Many in the USA are baffled by the wrangling between Britain, France and Germany over the EU. Julian Lindley-French explains it vividly: "A senior French official privately likened [UK PM] Cameron's negotiating position at last week's European Summit to that of someone invited to a wife-swapping party who failed to bring the wife. Very French. A more accurate metaphor would be someone invited to a seemingly perfectly respectable dinner party who upon arrival is told to sell his wife as the price of entry as the hosts cannot afford the party..." Read it all.
