Does Germany Want to Boot Greece From Euro Land?

By Greg Scoblete
February 15, 2012

Does Germany Want to Boot Greece From Euro Land?

Gideon Rachman thinks some do:

'My impression from talking to policymakers in Berlin recently, and following the debate subsequently, is that different bits of the German government have different views on the matter. The Foreign Ministry and people around the chancellor seem keen to keep the Greeks in â?? for a mixture of political and economic reasons. The Finance Ministry is much more equivocal. The formula I heard repeated a fair amount in Berlin was that â??it is upto the Greeks to decide whether they want to stay in.â? This struck me as a less than ringing endorsement. A few months ago, you would have heard people saying that it was unthinkable for Greece to leave. Now, itâ??s clearly thinkable.'

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