[Skybird]

First, I don't give much for the Daily Mail, nor do I read it. That is the hate paper that just days ago once again compared contemporary Germany to the Nazis and warned of Germany forming a Fourth Reich and conquering and supressing Europe, succeeding where Hitler failed - this time by financial means.

Second, I have not even heared a clue or hint about the story you quote there, not in Germans, jnot in Swiss, not in Austrian and not in French international papers.

But the Brit rabate however that Thatcher got by taking all Europe hostage back then, certainly is a thing that can be examined these days. If Germany would cut its spendings on the EU to comparable ammount, in % of totals, the EU would collapse immediately. - This the Mail seems not to print.