NationalismAs if the euro does not have enough problems, politicians in Europe are fanning the flames of the crisis with broadsides of aggressive rhetoric.
It serves only to heighten resentment, prejudice and suspicion just when the continent needs to pull together.
If the rabble rousers are to be believed, the Greeks are hopelessly lazy, the Italians can not be trusted, the Germans are control freaks bent on taking over the continent and the European Union autocrats in Brussels want to abolish democracy and create a Soviet-style EU.
Greece-bashing is a sport among German politicians trying to score points ahead of elections next year. Markus Söder, the finance minister of Bavaria, on Sunday labelled the Greeks "mummy's boys" and said they should quit the euro by the end of the year.
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