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Post-Greece, Germany and EU face reality

By Erwin Grandinger/The Globalist (chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2015-07-06 14:20

Post-Greece, Germany and EU face reality

"No" supporters shout slogans during celebrations after a referendum in Athens, Greece July 5, 2015. Greeks overwhelmingly rejected conditions of a rescue package from creditors, throwing the future of the country's euro zone membership into further doubt and deepening a standoff with lenders. [Photo/Agencies]

When the German Chancellor Angela Merkel is satirized with a swastika armband on the streets of Athens, it is time to stop and rethink. Let's get real: There will never be the proverbial “phone number for Europe” that former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger had demanded decades ago. This very idea contradicts 1,000 years of European history. The current Greek drama is just the latest case in point.

The admission of the Greek drachma into the EU's European Monetary Union was heavily promoted in February 2000 by then German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and his finance minister, fellow Social Democrat Hans Eichel.

This is a prime example of the hubris with which bureaucrats have grossly ignored the cultural, governmental and economic realities — and never corrected their past errors, supposedly for the sake of a greater good. This is what one could call “consequence-free” governance. Bankers would go to jail for this (that is, one hopes).

Democracy does not mean to vote at the polls for redistribution to the point of fiscal ruin. Greece is the writing on the wall: The eurozone must not serve as an eternal playground for grandiose schemes.

German investors are traumatized by an “Italianized” European Central Bank. The Bundesbank is humiliated and marginalized for good. Only 15 years ago, the deutschmark was believed to be the safest currency in the world — after the US dollar. Now one country, Greece, which accounts for merely 1.2 percent of the eurozone GDP, has single-handedly shredded the whole bureaucratic construct of the “United States of Europe”.

Greece is just the beginning. The whole financial architecture of Europe has been put to test. If one thing is clear, it is this: The euro will never challenge the US dollar as the world's preferred reserve currency.

The author is a financial and political analyst at EPM Group Berlin.

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