How long before Merkel herself falls?
Germany won’t conquer europe, quite the opposite. Europe will conquer Germany and use her treasury and her people to feed themselves.
What's going to make her fall? Her position is unassailable, and all the European leaders are doing exactly as she says.
How long before Merkel herself falls?
Don't know what you base that on. The EU was Germany's baby right from the beginning.
Germany won’t conquer europe, quite the opposite. Europe will conquer Germany and use her treasury and her people to feed themselves
From Germany Resists Austerity in Budget - WSJ, 2011 November 12, by William Boston, Andreas Kissler and Matthias Rieker
Berlin is enjoying its lowest unemployment in decades and the government is still finding money to spend on infrastructure and income tax cuts ..... < snip > But in France, Europe's second-largest economy, the government has presented two austerity budgets ..... < snip > As Germany puts the final touches on its 2012 budget, it is becoming increasingly clear that Europe's largest economy is a glaring exception at a time when a worsening debt crisis is forcing other major capitals to pull their belts ever tighter.
From Germany invites skilled workers from Greece - AP / Breitbart, 2011 November 13, by Kirsten Grieshaber
With a shrinking labor force and buoyant economy, Germany desperately needs skilled workers to keep its industrial engine churning forward. Increasingly, it's seeking them from Greece and other European laggards like Spain and Portugal where unemployment is soaring amid fears of financial implosion. Germany quickly overcame the financial meltdown that started in 2008 and unemployment is now at a 20-year low of 6.6 percent. Companies are so desperate to fill skilled labor shortages that the government has taken to organizing matchmaking sessions between German firms and job seekers from crisis-hit countries. ..... < snip > Rich Germany has a surprising message for sinking Greece: Help Wanted.
Greece gave us the foundations of democracy. Italy gave us the foundations of republic. It's too bad that both have flirted with and adopted some forms or degrees of Utopian socialism.
Germany is doing well, even amid the slowdown of European economy, and is actually, planning on income tax cuts and balancing the budget by 2015.
That, despite having the same common currency (Euro) and the "central" European Central Bank (ECB). The difference and the problem with other countries (PIIGS - Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Spain) was years or decades of their government's profligate public spending, not so much the marginally effective policies of their central bank and/or relative weakness or strength of the currency.
We can learn from that when we indiscriminately bash the Fed (central bank) and its monetary "policies".
Germany is the sole military force in Europe.
They are also the only viable industrial economy in Europe.
Yeah...and that will end well. Let’s go ahead and make the Germans feel all repressed. That always turns out well.
Pretty soon we will be hearing from our European resistence friends, “send lawyers, guns and money!” The countries of Europe don’t want to live under the boot of an EU dictatorship!