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05-08-12, 12:56 PM | #1 | |
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Operation "Self Deceit": New Documents Shine Light on Euro Birth Defects
Secret documents from the Kohl era have been declassified and reveal that Kohl's administration was absolutely aware of the mess it was creating, but pushed ahead of it in a bet to demonstrate some braindead poltical symbolism.
I always wondered why Kohl is so admired and called the father of German unification- he wasn'T. It were the people demonmstrating courageously in Eastgerman streets thatw ere the fathers and mothers of that peaceful revolution - Kohl had nothing to do with it. At best one can say that Kohl's government administered the years of transformation - in good, but also, and this is never said, in bad details, and plenty of hopelessly unrealistic illusions. That Kohl accepted the French pressure to give up the DM and the Bundesbank in favour of French demands for a prematurely introduced Euro currency and a ECB - both in explicit intention to weaken the GHerman currency and economy - is unforgivable. As a cost for German unification, the price was way too high. And the French couldn't have prevcented reunificaiton eternally anyway. Sooner or later they would have needed to tolerate it. I belong to those who just mocked Kohl by calling him "Birne". The term (meaning "pear, bulb") is no compliment, and I stand by mocking him until today. http://www.spiegel.de/international/...-a-831842.html Quote:
Seems the Euro is not the guarantee for "peace" in Europe, as we are being fed all day long. Seems exactly the opposite is true. Quel malheur!
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