About that headline: it’s a variation of a line from the 1995 film Apollo 13 (astronaut Jim Lovell, played by Tom Hanks, informing NASA’s mission control about his crippled spacecraft: “Houston, we have a problem”). In real life, those words weren’t uttered.

Are we heading for a truce in the euro’s budget battles? Eurozone finance ministers have spent the past two years tussling over proposals from French president Emmanuel Macron for a budget that could help stabilize the currency union in economic downturns.

Former Secretary of State and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice in a new interview expresses doubt at the idea of one person filling both positions at the same time.