Good morning from Brussels. As the world goes through a multi-level systemic shift, with Donald Trump trying to impose his political allies in Europe and Russia escalating in the east while simultaneously courting China, the Old Continent seems to be sleeping like a baby. Euractiv’s Nicholas Wallace reports that several member states – including the heavyweights – lack functioning governments. From the centre’s fragmentation in France and Germany to Austria’s barbarians standing at Europe’s gate, political fragility threatens to prevent Europeans from making choices that will define their “place in the world for the next 50 years”, as Ursula von der Leyen told EU lawmakers late last year. Even Poland, which currently holds the EU Presidency and says Europe should feel “lucky” about this, faces mounting pressure from the right-wing opposition PiS, which on Monday criticised the government's decision to hold the informal EU leaders' summit in Brussels instead of Warsaw. | 
