The BBC's Europe editor, Mark Mardell, has an interesting additional take on the problems of EU-American summitry on his blog today.

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That's what happens when you seek consensus, when you go by summitry, instead of exercising clear leadership to do what you believe in.

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Balancing Chinese ambitions is also partly why ASEAN has been keen to draw other powers, including Japan, Australia, India and Russia, into its summitry.

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In its paper, Distressing Signals on Summitry, the Center expressed serious reservations about the undesirable repercussions likely to result from this hastily arranged meeting.

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The treaties, the summitry and the political volatility that define Europe are completely ill-equipped to handle the crisis as it enters a new and potentially determinate end state.

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Mr Van Rompuy, a haiku-writing ascetic and devout Roman Catholic, has little experience of EU summitry, but years of training in the management of fractious partners, thanks to long service in multilingual coalition Belgian governments.

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The shameful trouble is that for all the meeting, summitry grand statements and fund raising programmes the European Monetary Union and indeed the European Union (EU) is so rife with bureaucracy that the very purpose of the EU has to be addressed.

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