German politicians and former European Central Bank officials sharply criticized the ECB over the weekend and pushed for Germany, as the largest contributor to the euro zone rescue effort, to have more control in the central bank’s matters, after President Mario Draghi signaled that the central bank could soon start purchasing government bonds.
“The new situation that Germany provides a growing share of the euro rescue, but has only one vote just like any other country no longer fits,” Herbert Reul, a German politician and chairman of the Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union group within the European Parliament, told German magazine Focus on Sunday…
Understandable enough, and the fact that the Germans feel this way is yet another reminder that the different nations of the EU do not feel like one people: there is no European people, no European demos, and, given that, the single currency is both farce and imposition. And always has been.






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