While we’re on the topic of the threat that the crisis in the Eurozone could pose to the existing political order, a selection of the EU’s own polling data assembled by the London Spectator makes interesting reading. It’s no great surprise that the EU is disliked by most Brits (that’s why it generally doesn’t publicize these findings in the UK). What’s more striking is just how unenthusiastic German voters—those conscripted underwriters of Brussels’s dangerously speculative single currency—have become. Barely 50 percent believe that their country’s membership of the EU is a good thing, while fewer than 40 percent—Brooklyn Bridge buyers all—believe that the EU can be trusted.

This isn’t good news for Angela Merkel as her voters face the prospect of paying yet more to bail out the Eurozone’s weaker members.