Under such pressure, the Czechs agreed to hold an extra leaders' summit on March 1st, just a few weeks before a regular summit scheduled for the end of March.What would Mr Sarkozy's project be, EU bigwigs wondered.
"After [centre-left hopeful and Florence mayor Matteo] Renzi and Grillo, we will have another extra-parliamentary leader".
From 2009 this will no longer be an enforced requirement, rather an optional extra that Leaders and Rovers may undertake.
This year it has an extra spice: Ed Miliband, leader of the Labour party, will be here later to talk about tax.
They must be extra watchful, their leaders cautioned, with the opening of deer hunting season this weekend and up to 200,000 rifle-toting Kentuckians expected to take to the woods.
First the conservative leader supported extra corporate taxes, then he condemned them.
He thought this over and decided to add two extra feet to his leader.
That enabled the trailing car, which could go faster than the leading car because it faced less air resistance, to transfer its extra momentum to the leader through a technique called "bump drafting".
Cameron's reluctance to turn down the pay rise is most likely a move to keep his backbenchers on side, as they could feel under an obligation to refuse the extra money if their leader did.
But in a British election season, the notion of Latvia mourning Waffen-SS patriots has acquired extra potency after Conservative leader David Cameron's European alliance with the Riga politicians of the Fatherland and Freedom party (LNNK) who revere the collaborators in the belief, like Ozols, that the bigger enemy was Moscow and not Berlin.
