Magna Mater Merkel?

Adrian Murdoch twittered this one last night:

Raw power is shifting, but to whom exactly? It is as if Merkel has somehow been crowned Magna Mater Europae by the Consilium, behind closed doors.

• via Total German triumph as EU minnows subjugated | Telegraph.

I suspect the Consilium didn’t know what is required to be an adherent of the Magna Mater … even the Romans knew to keep her ‘out’ of town …