“I fear that the German government, including its social democratic faction, have gambled away in one night all the political capital that a better Germany had accumulated in half a century,” he told the Guardian. Previous German governments, he said, had displayed “greater political sensitivity and a post-national mentality”.Habermas, widely considered one of the most influential contemporary European intellectuals, said that by threatening Greece with an exit from the eurozone over the course of the negotiations, Germany had “unashamedly revealed itself as Europe’s chief disciplinarian and for the first time openly made a claim for German hegemony in Europe.”
Sehe ich auch so.
Ich bitte zu beachten, dass er das dem Guardian gesagt hat. Nicht der deutschen Presse. Denn die hat in der Causa noch mehr versagt als die Merkel. Das hat gar keinen Sinn, mit denen zu reden. Da kann man auch gleich die schwedische Nationalhymne singen.“
Quelle: http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=ab5920e9
(via Mr. Reader)