German economists slug it out over euro future

German academic economists are divided on issues related to the future of the euro.

At the heart of the confrontation is a distinguished and media-savvy professor, Hans-Werner Sinn, head of one of Germany’s most renowned economic institutes. His emotive language and stark warnings of vast European debts guaranteed by Germany have provoked angry counter-charges of populism from his fellow academics.

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