I read news reports on the parliamentary debate yesterday, which suggest an internal conflict within the right-wing parties, while passing the vote would not be a problem as SPD and Greens wouldn't oppose. Interestingly, even some government MP criticised the punitive interests on the loans to Portugal, but as long as government policy aims to assuage the chauvinists in the own ranks and Bild, nothing good will come of it.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}