This shift may go further, if privately run charter cities and other so-called "special governance zones" gain traction.
There is also a huge distance between Paris and Berlin on longer-term issues of euro zone governance.
"The crisis has clearly revealed the need for strong economic governance in a zone with a single currency," Jean-Claude Trichet, the departing president of the European Central Bank, said in a speech Monday, repeating earlier calls for greater fiscal discipline.
Detailed plans will not be ready until October, and the German government, in an internal document seen by Reuters, has said it expects agreement on a redesign of euro zone governance in March 2013.
There are still plenty of risks: lack of faith in planned stress tests of European banks; low or no economic growth; more credit rating agency downgrades of sovereign debt; an eventual Greek default or debt restructuring; weaknesses in euro zone governance; and political resistance to painful changes.
Though his career in public life in China had mainly been in military service and War zone governance, General Li Hanhun was self-described as a reluctant warrior in his own writings and in his life-long devotion to Buddhism and Chinese classical learning.
"All options are on the table," said Valdis Dombrovskis, the stern Latvian commissioner who oversees euro-zone governance.Yet as ever it is hard to imagine that the euro zone's second-largest economy (after Germany) will face the serious prospect of EU-imposed financial penalties.
And she is having problems with her Free Democrat coalition partners over ratifying the ESM.And what of the euro?The uproar over British naysaying, the precise form of euro-zone governance and the choice of legal instruments have distracted attention from a far more important question: is the euro zone any closer to salvaging its currency after the summit?
Germany will surely grow more hostile to future bail-outs, as well as to proposed changes to euro-zone governance.
They can't believe the Europeans have gone back to institutional bickering .All this should act as a warning for the current discussions on reforming euro-zone governance.
Greece might also, ministers mused, change the rules of euro-zone governance, to the benefit of all Europeans.Three months on, the first two of these pledges are in tatters, the third looks shaky and the fourth is a bad joke.
