EU problems go from bad to worse

There's an old saying that goes, when you are in a hole, stop digging.

There's another one about all your chickens coming home to roost.

Both could be said to apply to the embattled European Union right now. No sooner had the bureaucrats managed to stave off the possible collapse of the euro caused by the Greek financial crisis by, as one leading commentator put it, kicking the can down the road a little further, than another crisis has arrived, once again with Greece at the center of things.