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I am on the road to Brussels rather than the road to hell, so am still trying to make sense of what the Czech PM was up to when he told the European Parliament:

"Timothy Geithner the Treasury Secretary of the United States talks about permanent action and we were quite alarmed by that at the spring council. He talks about a large stimulus campaign and the Buy American campaign - all of these steps, their combination and their permanency, is a way to hell."

Senior EU sources regard this as an unwise statement that Mr Topolanek will live to regret. The Socialists have already attacked him for playing domestic politics, although it is hard to see what good this would do him at home. But one of the reasons why people in Brussels regret his vehemence is that they believe they are winning the argument - Brown hardly mentioned stimulus packages in his speech and Paris and Berlin's view went unchallenged during the recent summit.

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