But there has to be a political will, and reports from the euro group suggest that there is considerable reluctance, not only from Germany, to going even another small step towards the Greeks. Newer members such as Latvia and Slovakia, and states where eurosceptic forces have made big gains such as Finland, will require to be cajoled into making further concessions – for them, the imperative of the survival of the euro has less persuasive power, the call to European solidarity means less. And as for Ireland, there appears, unfortunately, still to be a consideration that the state’s “good boy” image would be undermined by the appearance of success of “bad boy” Greece.