The EU and the euro zone are increasingly seen by Germans as an expensive albatross. Angela Merkel is not known for her glittering rhetorical ability and, when she tries, one wishes she hadn’t bothered.
In a December speech to the Bundestag, she described the euro as “our common destiny” and efforts to stabilise the currency as “preserving the European Union’s grandiose idea of peace and freedom”.
Grandiose indeed. Dr Merkel’s effort to place the current euro zone crisis in a wider historical EU framework was admirable but, in reading the words from a page in her trademark atonal voice, she didn’t even sound like she was convincing herself.
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