There’s been a lot of talk about new German chancellor Angela Merkel being some kind of reformer. Judging by this story in the EU Observer , talk is all it is:

Germany is set to call for limiting a new transparency initiative from Brussels and introducing a threshold for making public the beneficiaries of EU funds. There is a “danger of negative headlines that could put into question the entire EU support [programme] and scare off potential investors”, economy minister Michael Glos warned in a written note sent to other German ministries, reports Financial Times Deutschland.