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Or Germany was hoping to impose German macroeconomics on the rest of Europe, as has happened with Merkel's "Euro Plus Pact" (formerly the Pact for the Euro formerly the Competitiveness Pact formerly the Deauville pact). Economics is politics by other means
they already knew Germany wouldn't go for it 20 years ago
You've said that Germany has been pursuing the same mercantilist goal for twenty years, and now that the other EEC leaders at the time knew that Germany would never accept compromise on the currency (so, presumably, moves towards a more federal type of economic governance), but went ahead all the same.
Can you write a diary explaining this?
And at times of crisis, national populism is the easy route to deflect blame and rally people, with predictable results. Wind power
which you blame (not in that comment, but you did all thrrough the Constitution debates on this site years ago) on the French "lyrical left" and rebels within the PS. Economics is politics by other means
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