May 26, 2012

The Threat of German Amnesia

Joschka Fischer, Project Syndicate

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Europe continues to try to quench the fire with gasoline – German-enforced austerity – with the consequence that, in a mere three years, the eurozone’s financial crisis has become a European existential crisis.

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