Several times a day I visit the online editions of the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal. Amazingly, Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy have been hogging the headlines in both newspapers since the onset of the eurozone crisis. No-one among their European equals seems to mind, either. Although the eurozone includes seventeen countries, and although the European Union boasts of twenty-seven members at present, the German and French leaders have become the rulers of both roosts. Apparently, it is all up to them. Now, I rarely read what the two have to say, for it is hardly worth the trouble. But I am amazed by their grimaces, gestures, and postures in the photographs that come along with their weighty pronouncements. The Angela and Nicolas show surely marks the end of a perplexing era. Which is perhaps why they are allowed to hog the headlines. Their equals across Europe must have better plans for the future.