EU prospects for future success are gloomy.

Compromise and dashed dreams litter reform path
Raphael Minder and George Parker, Financial Times Original Article

Another summit, another set of promises from European Union leaders to revive their spluttering economies. Yesterday's communiqué at the end of the two-day EU economic summit in Brussels was presented as a "relaunch", but behind almost every page lay a history of broken promises and unfulfilled ambition.