“Whatever it takes”: Is there another euro crisis ten years later? – Business

It was an almost Victorian garden party that the then British Prime Minister David Cameron had invited to the stately Lancaster House. In addition to candlesticks and chandeliers, on July 24, 2012, he had handbags by the English star designer Vivienne Westwood drape, outside on the lawn in the blazing sunshine, Prince Charles and Finance Minister Christine Lagarde jokingly joined forces. Delegates ate a few bites from Michelin-starred chef Tom Aiken, who paired Scottish Loch Duart salmon with Yorkshire goat’s cheese. Cameron’s big business party in the garden of the Neoclassical mansion was intended to be a show of force in modern Britain, the largest business conference in the country’s history. Nothing, one could say, has gone more dramatically wrong.