How Goethe’s masterpiece is shaping Europe

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Series Details 31.12.11
Publication Date 30/12/2011
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Analysis feature. From the wreck of the sovereign debt crisis Germany has unquestionably emerged as Europe’s pre-eminent power. And a central tenet of the German solution to the crisis ... is that other eurozone members must be recast in their mould of fiscal orthodoxy and financial conservatism.

Article discusses the background of this providentialism and homespun finance?

Author concludes that Germany rules in the eurozone debt crisis and thus southern Europe should prepare for austerity, followed by deflation, unemployment and, eventually, civil strife.

Related Links
ESO: Background information: Eurozone set for fiscal union, says Merkel http://www.europeansources.info/record/eurozone-set-for-fiscal-union-says-merkel/
Spiegel Online International, 29.12.11: 'Money Needs Laws' http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,806046,00.html

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