Don't be afraid of barking dogs.

These two cases the dog that should have barked but did not, and the dog that barked for no reason threaten the EU s fundamental workings, which are based on a clear rulebook enforced vigorously by a strong Commission. Juncker s Commission risks losing its authority from the start if the rules can be bent or broken to accommodate the larger member states domestic political priorities.

Her five horrid, deformed little dogs who incessantly yap on the roof under my window.

When I first went in, I was scared, because I heard dogs barking and I thought they were guard dogs.

When I turn the crank and I apply pressure, it makes a sound like a barking dog.

She watched a live feed where a police officer stood in front of a group of protesters with a barking dog.

We all know of them, but nevertheless the Arabs say, The dogs may bark, but the caravan moves on.

As Sherlock Holmes understood, a dog that does not bark in the nighttime usually goes unnoticed. In Europe s case, the European Union s fiscal rules are at issue, and the Commission in principle the EU s watchdog should bark loudly when they are flouted.

The other problem for Europe is a dog that does bark, but for no reason. This is the case of the United Kingdom, which has been asked to pay an additional contribution to the EU budget of about 2 billion ( 2.5 billion, which amounts to a rounding error of the UK s own budget).

A man shouting, Shut up! The dogs frantically snarling, claws scrabbling, then her her voice hoarse, harsh, hollow, almost only a tone, incoherent, a note, a squawk, bone on metal, metal gone molten, calling them back, Come back darlings, come back dear ones.

A new club called Zone Russian slang for a concentration camp is designed to reproduce the feeling of gulag life. Barking Alsatian dogs, stern guards, and waiters dressed in inmate uniforms work hard to recreate the gulag s sinister atmosphere.

The lesson for Europe and for the US is clear it is time to stop listening to what banks say, and start focusing on what they do. We must re evaluate the distorted political economy of the financial sector, before the excessive power of the few imposes even larger costs on everyone else.