Premier Aristide Briand’s aandringen op reparatiegelden leidde tot de opkomst van Hitler; het beleid van Angela Merkel leidt tot de opkomst van extremistische bewegingen in de rest van Europa.
The current arrangements governing the euro are here to stay, because Germany will always do the bare minimum to preserve the common currency – and because the markets and the European authorities would punish any other country that challenged these arrangements.