Euro: Money integration brought nothing but permanent conflicts

Berlin What pageantry America staged for Europe this week. First Emmanuel Macron, a French Jupiter abroad if not at home, dazzled Donald Trump and all Washington. Then Angela Merkel flew in, not quite dazzling but still impressive in her sobriety, so rare around the White House these days.

Macron and Merkel are on a common mission. Meeting in Berlin, they had coordinated their agenda vis-à-vis Trump. One goal was to talk him out of nixing the nuclear deal with Iran. Brokered largely by the Europeans, it is considered a triumph of EU diplomacy, however imperfect.