Greek debt crisis merely adds to the list of issues dividing the European Union

Press quote (The Washington Post)
Simon Tilford
21 March 2010

"The creation and enlargement of the EU was one of Europe's biggest achievements, but now its inability to speak as one, and its failure to agree on how to tackle its underlying economic and social challenges, is undermining Europe's standing and potentially leading it into a period of decline," said Simon Tilford, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform, a London-based think-tank.