“The financial mess has completed Germany’s redemption from pariah to the leader of Europe. ”
That is the plan?
For decades Germany was the number three economy in the world, that is hardly a “pariah”.
In Germany there is an opposite view about the bailouts that I think is more fitting: Germany has become the slave of Europe.
How else do you describe handing over your wealth to other people?
Could you imagine if it were the other way around?...
Europeans handing over their wealth to Germany....?
Let’s try that and see how it goes. LoL!
true in many ways. Unfortunately the image of Germans in many English/American eyes is still framed by WWII.
i still think German tourists are boors and rude, but I see that there are lots of regional variances.
Yes, that's the view that the elites want the people in Germany to hold. But have you read the treaties of the European Union at all? The Lisbon Treaty, as have other earlier treaties, impose the Soziale Marktwirtschaft on all of the EU nationsdoesn't sound too much like Germany being Europe's slave, but its master. The bailouts weren't wantedGermany actually forced the nations to take them (why do you think it caused so many national governments to collapse?)
In Germany there is an opposite view about the bailouts that I think is more fitting: Germany has become the slave of Europe