As Greeks await their fate following an emergency summit of all 28 EU members tomorrow, reactions elsewhere across the union to their financial crisis have exposed serious rifts that reach right into its core and threaten to rend apart the idealism that lies at the heart of the European project There is a tendency to see the Greek drama – still far from over – as a special case. It has been blamed variously on misjudgements in Brussels and at the European Central Bank, on deliberately dubious bookkeeping in Athens before Greece joined the euro, on the European Union’s penchant for setting politics ahead of economics when making accession decisions, and – especially in northern Europe – on some social and cultural specifics of Greece, such as a rampant black