Anton Jager: The failure of the eus political bodies to deal with so many fundamental problems across europe and the reliance on the central banks extremely powerful but limited tools is the eu coming up against the hard limits of what sort of crisis management technocracy can accomplish. He says that when coordination is most needed it's least attainable because of how the crisis exacerbates power disparities between countries. "I'm not quite sure at all how Europe can respond to this institutionally I would be very careful with the cyclical predictions we often encounter of the imminent demise of the European Union"