The return of politics to the Eurozone continues.

Via Open Europe’s invaluable daily press digest:

Writing in Dutch paper De Volkskrant, Dutch historian René Cuperus calls the euro “the suicide pill of Europe”, arguing, “who-ever thinks to make from Europe a project of accounting discipline, whereby Southern European countries are being humiliated as monetary colonies and Triple-A people are being over-demanded through a false appeal on solidarity, is living in a technocratic utopia.” He concludes: “It is time for a plan B – European cooperation without the euro.” In Die Welt, German author Günther Lachmann argues that “Merkel and Sarkozy are governors without people. They want a political euro-union. But the people of Europe want to renew democracy.

Interestingly, Mr. Cuperus works for the Dutch Labour Party’s think tank.

The next item on Open Europe’s press digest is an invitation to snark that I shall not resist. It reads that the “EU hopes to send funds to Libya “as soon as possible” to support democratic transition.” That’s well and good, but it sounds likes the Eurozone needs helping on its way to “democratic transition” too. How about it it, Brussels?

No, I didn’t think so.