With violence surging in eastern Ukraine and EU-Russia relations getting ever chillier, Moscow threatened to quit the Council of Europe, the Strasbourg-based human rights body which has nothing to do with the EU, after the council's parliamentary assembly, grouping MPs from the member states, voted narrowly to strip Russia of its voting rights.
But few doubt the Maryland woods will host a chillier meeting than the desert kingdoms are used to receiving in Washington.
Curiouser and curiouser Hey, big spender Chillier on campus?
Relations between the German chancellor and French president started frostily when Mr Hollande was elected last year, and became still chillier of late.
Iraq's Shia-led government, which used to fear the prospect of a Sunni regime displacing Mr Assad and his Alawites, has become chillier.
Huge declines in GDP, the recent falls of the Czech, Hungarian and Latvian governments, and nervousness about NATO's future made the subject seem uncomfortably topical.As the wind of events turns chillier the main comfort blanket is the European Union.
These new centre-right governments are chillier, too, about faster European integration.
But even then confidence was waning: it found the lowest increase in starting pay in recent years, and most employers said there would be at best a cost-of-living rise next year.The consensus, it seems, is that graduates in 2009 will emerge from their studies into a world that is chillier, rather than utterly changed.
But when the two leaders met again in early July, the temperature was far chillier.
The atmosphere for dissenters is about to get chillier: the reform proposes stripping of his seat any congressman who resigns from his party.Even opponents of Mr Ortega admit that he enjoys wide enough public support for few to oppose his reforms.
