Gideon Rachman’s analysis of European unity at his FT blog, says: "There are lots of reasons why EU countries start behaving like this when the going gets tough. First, in a crisis people tend to get selfish. It is easy to be high-minded, when nothing very serious is at stake. Second, EU countries often have very different instinctive reactions, whether it is to the US or to international finance – and, in a crisis, people tend to fall back on gut instincts." Read the blog here.