based journalist and contributor the guardian newspaper neil clark thank you thank you very much. e.u. leaders at their first summit of twenty twelve all smiles but the existing tensions were clear to see there was another war of words between the french president and u.k. prime minister over whose industry is larger in poland set to join the euro zone demanded a greater say in decision making it was at least one decision made however with twenty five of the twenty seven e.u. nations agreeing to a german school rule that would limit the size of nation spending it was agreed to set up a permanent bailout fund the struggling members of the veldt the author of the end of the euro says there's a lack of solidarity in the e.u. when somebody does a pursuing their own political interests within its. deficit it's of course very big problem for the european union to keep up the unity it's always a question of national preference. coming in to kalash or at least into some kind of coalition with each other and for example france it's obvious that for president sarkozy the upcoming presidenti