TALK TO EUROPEAN bosses about their continent and the responses are as diversified because the languages they converse. Katastrophe, bark the Germans. The Italians wave their palms in exasperation. The French supply a resigned Gallic shrug. The British change the topic to the climate (which isn’t precisely fabulous, both). With governments collapsing centre-left (in Germany final month) and centre-right (in France on December 4th), plus conflict raging in next-door Ukraine, chaos is the political watchword.
