My bet is that Pfaff, or a senior editor, had to front the article with the partyline anti-Euro crap to get it past the paper's corporate minders who skim the lead couple of para only.  Call me cynical, but I have heard and read enough about corporate owner/advertiser pressure on us newspaper and newsrooms to expect this kind of thing.

I am trying to recall the name of the Eastern European film maker -- Polish?  Hungarian?  Czech? -- who said, of his courageous dissident work under the Soviet regime, something like this:  State censorship is difficult, but you can get around it or under it or fool it somehow;  but the censorship of money is almost perfect, it is much harder to get around that.  Anyone remember this man or the correct quotation?  it was on a printed flyer for a showing of one of his films, a bit of ephemera which I had in my office about 2 yrs ago and which has since sunk into the midden layers.

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...