Onwards - but to where?

Mr Cameron has been busy today talking to the Big Three  (or the Unholy Trinity): Barroso, Van Rumpoy and Merkel.  Doubtless there will be acres of interpretation and comment on his meetings which I shall post here later.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15782854

Three major inter-related issues will be debated in the weeks ahead:

• How to find and apply sticking plaster to cover the current chasms within the eurozone, for example making the EFSF work,
• Proposals for a two-tier EU and the effect they will have on national sovereignty and democracy
• The UK's response to both the above.

Many of the issues and arguments have been rehearsed in previous posts on this blog.  For the moment I am content to provide links to articles relevant directly or indirectly to these issues.  In particular I draw your attention to articles from Spiegel Online which set out the nuances of ideas in Germany concerning the future of the EU/eurozone.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,797626,00.html
How the EU can emerge from the ashes.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,798399,00.html
Opposing visions of Europe

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,798588,00.html
EU has bigger worries than British Euroskeptics.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100118043/at-last-someone-makes-the-case-against-international-jurisdiction/

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/philipaldrick/100013329/better-get-used-to-living-with-the-euro-crisis-its-the-new-normal/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8897896/Angela-Merkel-says-UK-must-work-with-the-eurozone-or-risk-being-left-behind.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8898731/ECBs-Draghi-tells-eurozone-to-sort-out-bail-out-fund.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8899213/Cameron-urges-decisive-action-on-euro-crisis.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/8900257/Angela-Merkel-holds-firm-on-plan-for-financial-tax-despite-British-fears.html

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2011/11/merkel-says-nein-nein-nein-to-cameron.html#more

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8900363/Mario-Draghi-hits-out-as-ECB-pressure-grows.html