Eleventh hour legal gymnastics designed to allow tightened economic governance in the eurozone without the need for a laborious treaty change have set Brussels tongues wagging over the political and legal ramifications of the move.
Proposals by EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy have seen officials, journalists and other hangers-on rush to rediscover paragraph 14 of Article 126 of the EU treaty.
Inserted way back in the Maastricht Treaty - which contained the now widely critic...
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