TEUROPEAN ALK the bosses on their continent and the answers are as varied as the languages they speak. Catastrophebark the Germans. The Italians wave their hands in exasperation. The French offer a resigned Gallic shrug. The British change the subject depending on the weather (which isn’t exactly fabulous either). With the collapse of center-left (in Germany last month) and center-right (in France on December 4) governments, and war raging in neighboring Ukraine, chaos is the name of the game policy.