http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,694193,00.html
excerpt: > "That we Germans -- and 14 other euro zone states -- have to pay for > Greece, or at least provide it with guarantees, is bitter. And it's > far from a foregone conclusion that the fright will not return. But > there's another aspect that Europeans will look back on one day. The > developments of recent weeks have shown just how advanced European > integration has become over time -- and not just on the paper of > treaties in Brussels. It may sound like a paradox after all the > disputes, but Europe has been pulled closer together by this crisis. > That closeness was recognizable when, on May 1, unions across Europe > protested and German workers lively debated the Greek pension system. > Germans are torn between their solidarity with their colleagues in > Athens and their anger over the fact that they have to support Greeks > who get to retire a lot earlier than their German counterparts. The > demand is clear: 'If we have to pay for you, then you will have to > work as long as we do.'" > > "For years, the debate over unified European social standards has been > the exclusive domain of leftist European think tanks. Now the debate > is being conducted on the streets of Germany, France and Greece. … _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
