The European Union (EU) is now having to deal with the consequences of the hubris of the “great Europeans” of a previous generation. The people who created the euro — men such as Helmut Kohl, the former German chancellor, and Jacques Delors, the one-time head of the European Commission — shared Giscard d’Estaing’s eye for the history books. But their dream of leaving a legacy of a United Europe, with a single currency at its core, has turned into a nightmare.  Article