("For European Union and the Euro, Time Runs Short")
Angela
Merkel is playing the part of Nero in the conflagration of the European
Union. Rome burned yesterday as its former leader was given an
unceremonious Italian boot. This follows in the wake of the disaster
that is playing out in Greece and it seems but precursor for what will
next transpire in France. And yet, while the citizens in all of these
countries cry out for an end to their economic decimation, while the
circumstances demand that the crushing weight of fiscal austerity be
loosened and while pleas escalate for financial assistance, Merkel
fiddles. Her dictates for restraint, restraint, restraint have left
societies throughout this Union on the verge of collapse. It is time to
take the fiddle away from Merkel, or at least demand that she play a
very different tune if the fire is to be extinguished and the Union
saved.
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