We isolate and overload Germany at our peril

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Series Details 12.6.12
Publication Date 12/06/2012
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Commentary feature. Despite the burdens and risks that Germany has already taken on, the country’s government finds itself abused for not doing even more during the eurozone debt crisis. Isolating and berating Berlin, while trying to force the country to underwrite the finances of the whole of the eurozone, is a politically dangerous course. The rise of far-right nationalists in Greece or the Netherlands is deeply regrettable. The rise of the far right in Germany would be a disaster.

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ESO: Background information: Germany: A lonely path / Merkel insists on two-speed Europe http://www.europeansources.info/record/germany-a-lonely-path-merkel-insists-on-two-speed-europe/
Il Sole-24 Ore / Financial Times, 12.6.12: Do something, Mrs Merkel! (via PressEurop) http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/2162941-do-something-mrs-merkel
Blog: Charlemagne, 16.6.12: Is Grexit good for the euro? http://www.economist.com/blogs/charlemagne/2012/06/germany-and-future-euro-1
The Economist, 16.6.12: Charlemagne: Between two nightmares http://www.economist.com/node/21556949

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