The roads were barely wide enough for a horse cart, and often I looked over the face of a crumbling mountain, forcing myself to think of something other than death.

NEWYORKER: The Idiot President

The result, in a mountain range characterised by soft, crumbling rock which desperately needs strong roots to hold it together, has been an increasing number of landslides, which block roads, railways and even rivers.

ECONOMIST: From the archive

They prefer tinkering at the edges to tackling the real problems - a floundering economy, crumbling competitiveness, the eurozone's north-south divide and Europe's debt mountain.

BBC: Viewpoints: What future for the European project?