The European Waste
In Sweden, the anti-European far right has just brought down the government and new general elections have been called. In Germany, Angela Merkel, before the congress of her party, the CDU, has questioned specifically France and Italy, whose "structural reforms" would be insufficient to allow both countries to resume growth and restore their accounts. The day before, however, the Bundesbank had lowered its growth forecast for 2015 to 1%, illustrating the fragility of the German economy. The time and place chosen by the Chancellor to lay bare the divisions that undermine the European project, is revealing: the ...