HERE is a quick way to spoil a Brussels dinner party.Simply suggest that world governance is slipping away from the G20, G7, G8 or other bodies in which Europeans may hog up to half the seats.

• 在布鲁塞尔，要想迅速搅黄一场晚宴，最好的法子莫过于指出世界统治权正在从G20,G7,G8这些欧洲人轻易便可取得半数席位的组织中溜走。