The next "make or break" summit will be held on December 8th and 9th.A court in Belarus sentenced two men to death for bombing the Minsk subway system in April, killing 15 people.
It is a familiar refrain in the sorry saga of a euro crisis that has stumbled from bad to worse despite a series of ostensibly make-or-break summits since the Greek debt bomb exploded in late 2009.
Since then Spain has, broadly, been as good as its word and Mariano Rajoy's government has cut budgets, freed its labour market, played its part in countless "make-or-break" summits in Brussels and secured up to €100 billion ($121 billion) to prop up its banks.
The markets' nervous reaction suggests this was yet another make-or-break summit that had done too little.
The disastrous outcome of an earlier "make-or-break" summit on climate change, in Copenhagen in 2009, has made all environmental campaigners, both spiritual and secular, wary of investing too much moral capital in a single diplomatic event.
Chairing the summit, the European council's president, Donald Tusk, said all sides were still in the middle of "very difficult and sensitive negotiations" adding: "One thing is clear to me: this is a make-or-break summit".
Leaders of the few remaining countries where tigers are still found in the wild are preparing for a make-or-break summit in Russia, which they believe offers the last chance to save the critically endangered animal.
The European council president, Donald Tusk, said all sides were still in the middle of "very difficult and sensitive negotiations", adding: "One thing is clear to me: this is a make-or-break summit – I have no doubt".
And on the eve of Friday's make-or-break summit, as French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned that the euro was at risk of "disintegration", he repeated that there were "some" who should clearly not have joined the club.
Britain would like to see Germany boost domestic demand and help to generate growth across the crisis-hit single currency area, but the prime minister's intervention is likely to infuriate Berlin, as Europe's leaders prepare to gather for their latest make-or-break summit.
Earlier this week, the President told journalists travelling on his private aircraft that he hoped "Carla doesn't give birth on Sunday", when he is due to attend a make-or-break eurozone summit in Brussels.
