A blueprint for Germany to save the eurozone

Commentary feature by Robert Zoellick, President of the World Bank. For almost 60 years, Germans have maintained that it is their responsibility to participate in a modern Europe. Today, Germany’s responsibility is to lead in saving that Europe. This shift is not easy for Germans, who have often been urged to step forward, only then to be criticised for aggressiveness. But no other country can lead Europe out of crisis and into revival.

There is no simple solution to the eurozone crisis. But muddling through, without clear directions and incentives, is fraught with mounting dangers. Germany must now point the way.

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ESO: Background information: How Goethe’s masterpiece is shaping Europe http://www.europeansources.info/record/how-goethes-masterpiece-is-shaping-europe/

Die Zeit, 3.2.12: Call us Nazis if it makes you happy (via PressEurop) http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1476831-call-us-nazis-if-it-makes-you-happy

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