Every Day's a Crisis for Europe as Merkel Heads Back to Brussels for Yet Another Summit

"These summits are happening almost permanently because the European Union is in the middle of an existentialist crisis," said Drew Scott, a professor of EU studies at the University of Edinburgh who argues that only national leaders are seen as having the legitimacy to take on major challenges. "In a world of euro-skepticism, we've seen a major return to domestic politics that we haven't seen since the sixties."