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La extensión del resentimiento antialemán va de las calles a los pasillos del poder
José Ignacio Torreblanca 2 MAY 2013 - 17:44 CET
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bad blood
The extent of anti-German resentment goes from the streets to the corridors of power
José Ignacio Torreblanca 2 MAY 2013 - 17:44 CET
In English, bad blood expression used to describe the impairment in a relationship that results in the perception of the parties is damaging to the other. The result is the animosity but, above all, the breakdown in the ability of the parties to communicate and interact cordially. Think now of the portraits of Angela Merkel characterized as a Nazi demonstrations in Athens or the swastikas that were seen in the streets on the occasion of his visit to Lisbon. Or notice, to the contrary, in the unfortunate cover of Der Spiegel, the German magazine, with a montage in which presents a typical farmer in southern Europe on a donkey laden European banknotes together under an umbrella holder " The lie of poverty, crisis countries how to hide their wealth. "
And do not forget that while the center-left government has made in Italy, 55% of Italians voted to Beppe Grillo or Silvio Berlusconi, whose anti-German campaign speeches were furiously. As seen in the controversy generated by the internal document of the French Socialist Party which accuses the "selfish intransigence" of Germany to plunge Europe, not just talk about the streets or the front pages of the press, but the extent resentment in the corridors of power where the political elite moves, while sinking Hollande in polls, say in Paris, Merkel is heading for his reelection. Spain also falls outside: as shown by the German ambassador Tribune this newspaper last Friday (From the deep friendship), Spain's relations with Germany, which because of the absence of a negative story or bilateral conflict have been the best available at all within the European Union, have slipped through a chasm of mutual distrust and cross extremely negative perceptions. Bad Blood.
These phenomena are not noise that we dismiss as anecdotal but symptoms of a huge paradox. Since the crisis began, Germany has managed to impose, one after another, all theses, and drive the solutions at the pace she wanted. A Merkel not be accused of duplicity or dishonesty: Europe simply try to apply what worked in Germany. Both the diagnosis of the crisis, focusing on the indebtedness, lack of competitiveness and lax fiscal policy and the periphery, such as solutions, organized around the combination of fiscal austerity and structural reforms to improve competitiveness, mimic the experience of Germany in the past decade. If you worked for us, think the Germans, why do not you would work to others?
Given the primacy of Germany, there is only one recipe on the table: the German. A possible alternative federalist based rapid political and economic integration around a banking union, a European budget and strengthened debt mutualisation is not available today. The Spanish government leeway to rising unemployment and unconvincing and humiliating request patience has to do with the awareness that the German recipe can succeed and get us out of the crisis or fail and lead to the collapse of the euro and societies southern Europe, but you will not see an alternative. If the euro survives, he will do with the lifeguard that set Germany, a lifeguard articulated balanced budget and wage repression and accompanied by strict supervision on the states of the eurozone. The asymmetry is such that while France, Italy and Spain tumble, Germany not only imposes its economic model, but does so without losing sovereignty. Conversely, its democracy is coming reinforced: its Parliament today is stronger, its Constitutional Court rules over European integration and Merkel is the only leader of the eurozone will be reelected.
All this leads to a dead end, since there is a political project that gives meaning to the Europe. After have been partly overcome the distrust of the markets, which now extends political distrust. Each passing day, the Berlin position becomes untenable. We are therefore faced with the opening of a political crisis whose axis is the polarization and resentment towards economic Germanization of Europe. The German Europe is succeeding economically but failing politically, we do not know where it will lead. Hence, uncertainty again.
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