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June 30, 2012

Merkel's Retreat Won't Solve Europe's Problems

Daily Telegraph, Daily Telegraph

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Surrender never comes easily to Germany, whether on the football pitch, where it crashed out of the European championships against Italy, or in Brussels, where Angela Merkel has for months been the Nein Chancellor, resisting all pleas for a Euro bail-out.

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