


The euro crisis, a certain breed of politicians, journalists and economists argue, has allowed Germany to dominate Southern Europe and to suffocate it in order to impose its principles even as its export policy has meant that the country has profited from that same currency crisis more than any other country. Again and again, it casts its shadow over the present day.Ī heavy accusation has been levelled at Germany - by some in Greece, in Spain and in France but also by some in Great Britain and in the United States. But it would be a mistake to believe that the German past is no longer relevant. Those demands, of course, have much to do with the desperation now being felt by a government that has thus far acted with a significant degree of amateurism.
