ANGELA MERKEL GOES TO GREECE

As far as I know Germany and Greece are not a war. So it should not be so surprising that the chancellor of Germany goes to Athens.

And today Angela Merkel will go to Greece.

It seems that she will be receive with protests.

First of all, let me say that in a democratic society people can express their views so if some people in Greece do not llike her visit is up to them to protest.

But it is also my freedom to say that I find quite unfair to receive in a hostile way Angela Merkel. I will tell why.

During these last months Spain has been in the mouth of different politicians around the world to put Spain as an example of what they do not want for their countries. I am thinking about Sarkozy in France and Romney in the US. In contrast, some days ago I saw as Angela Merkel was talking to some young German students about how hard is for young Spaniards to succeed having Spain such an amount of jobless people. Angela Merkel was not insulting Spain but showing sympathy!

What I mean is that I think that we should be very proud of this woman. WE COULD HAVE QUITE ANOTHER KIND OF EUROPE WITHOUT HER.

It is true that Germany is currently asking austerity to Europe but let’s remind that during decades Germany has been pouring money into Europe!!

Greece is still in the euro. Why? Because Angela Merkel wants a United Europe!

I think Greek people should be very careful about protests again Angela Merkel because people in Germany may arrive at the conclusion that they have to bailout other countries and what they receive in return is just hostility.

I do not know exactly how the things happened in Greece but one thing I am sure of: The problems we have in Catalonia and Spain were our problems. Europe is asking now austerity. Angela Merkel is asking us austerity? If we do not like that, we just leave the eurozone. So Angela Merkel is not forcing us to anything. We are forcing us to continue in the euro. And Angela merkel is just giving seriosity to the euro project by asking austerity.

I think it is childish to see Germany as the responsible of the problems in Greece. The Greeks were the ones who choose to enter the euro! And if you want to use a strong currency you must abide.

Let me end that all these people who would love Greece to be outside the eurozone will love to see a lot of protests against Angela Merkel. That will be a perfect excuse to want Greece out of the euro. It is just because I also would like to use the same currency that the Greeks do – the euro – that I think protests against Angela merkel are a big mistake.

In any case, anyone is free to do what they think better. Maybe I am wrong.

IS SPAIN BLACKMAILING GERMANY TOO?

At first when I heard that Italy and Spain were blocking an agreement inside the EU tonight I felt quite excited and almost happy! Wow! To be a part of a state that has the guts to go against Germany, I thought! I imagine that some British may feel in a similar way when David Cameron voetoes some European agreement even if this means more isolation for the UK.

So at first I felt like proud of Italy and Spain not acting as slaves of Angela Merkel.

But then, I say to me … let’s think over it? What is going on here?

And then I realise that in fact I am with Angela Merkel and that what Mariano Rajoy is doing is almost blackmail!

In Catalonia, in the name of solidarity, we have been sending a lot of money to the rest of Spain for decades. There is nothing wrong about solidarity but it is a bit difficult to have huge cuts in health and education in Catalonia when you know that at the same time you are giving your money away.

So now I have the feeling that Spain not only wants Catalonia to pay the fiesta but also Germany! Spain wants money from Europe without conditions! That’s unacceptable.

I know very well the waste of money in Spain in acting like the new rich and having kilometers and kilometers high speed trains. More than in Germany. How on earth should Germany be responsible for the money lent to Spain when Spain does not increase VAT or cuts wages to civil servants. In Catalonia the Catalan government cut civil servant wages.

So, in some way I feel ashamed that Spain is blocking an agreement in Brussels. If Spain wants help from Europe the first that has to do is to help itself! (cut wages, increase VAT!)

So bravo for Angela Merkel. You are totally right to put conditions to Spain if you are lending money to Spain. As I am fed up of Catalonia paying the fiesta I do not want Germany to be a victim of Spain too.

Who knows, maybe Mariano Rajoy wants Germany to pay the bill because it knows that if Germany pays the bill then in Catalonia we will have to pay the bill. Because politicians in madrid will tell to Catalonia: how you dare not to pay to Spain as usual when even Germany is paying Spanish bill!

So Angela Merkel must be careful. Spain may try German to show solidarity in order to oblige Catalnia to show solidarity too. Without any conditions.

SO SHAME ON SPAIN AND BRAVO FOR ANGELA!

The day that Spain cuts wages to its civil servants or increases VAT then I would be the first to ask Angela to show solidarity.  Meanwhile I feel ashamed that Spain is asking for money without accepting conditions for that! This is not a way to bring credibility to Spain!

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ITALY OR GERMANY?

Today, June 28th 2012, Italy or Germany will win something or lose something. For Italy we have Mario Monti and for Germany we have Angela Merkel.

Ops …

I have realised that neither Monti nor Merkel are football players.

Ok, let’s write two parts. One related to the one game and another related to the other game.

Let’s begin with the game played in Warsaw.

ITALY or GERMANY?

Well, it is quite difficult for me to answer. I know people in both countries and I like both countries … As Catalan and Castilian are Latin languages like the Italian language maybe THE.CAT should be in favour of Italy. On the other hand if Italy wins then Spain should play against Italy. And as Catalan, Castilian and Italian are Latin languages maybe it is not so exciting?

A final between Germany and Spain has the advantage that it can look as a fight between Angela Merkel austerity and the South of Europe ask for eurobonds. It is a game between two contrasted parts of the eurozone! On the other hand a final between Italy and Spain does not seem so exciting as Italy and Spain do not represent opposite parts of the eurozone. But at the same time if Spain plays against italy, even if the match can not be so exciting, it also means that Germany has lost. So Italy against Spain would be maybe not so exciting but a confirmation that Germany cannot the winner in  football.

So, as I love Germany and Italy and as I have reasons to wish that both win I just hope that the best wins … Or should I wish the opposite so that it is better for Spain ..?

Anyway, football is football and I envy those who see in football the representation of a whole country. Would it not be wonderful that by winning the Euro2012 the country who wins has less debts?

Well, let’s go now to the other game this time taking place today and tomorrow in Brussels. Here we have a lot of players but the ones that seem more rigid in their views are player Mario Monti and player Angela Merkel.

Mario Monti wants Germany to save Italy and Angela Merkel does not want to save any country if she cannot control what is going on in each country.

Mario Monti has the advantage of been supported by almost all the rest of the eurozone (I say almost) and by the EU and even by the IMF and Obama. Angela Merkel is almost alone. She is the one with the big wallet and the rest want her to open the wallet.

So, what will happen? Will a majority force Angela to open her wallet?

I think not because Angela Wallet, in contrast to other politicians, is a responsible one, and she knows that the money in her wallet, is not hers but from the German tax payer!

How lucky the Germans are! I wish I had a politician who take care of my taxes as Angela does.

Some may say that if Angela does not open the wallet then the eurozone will break apart. Well, I am sure that Angela Merkel does not want that but if the price for a single currency is for Germany to pay the bill I think Angela is right in not opening the bill.

Germany should show solidarity to the poorest countries in the planet where people are really in nned. But to open the wallet to the rest of Europe is not solidarity. It is robbery.

So to end, in Poland I do not know who I want to win but in Brussels I want to win Angela Merkel. If Mario Monti wins then Germany will collapse sooner or later.  The same way that has happened to Catalonia after decades and decades of opening the wallet to the rest of Spain. Now most Catalonians want independence. If Angela Merkel accepts to pay the bill I am sure that the next party to rule Germany would be a party that would put Germany out of the euro.

If we want the eurozone to succeed it is necessary that each part can work properly on its own. Angela, do not give up! Your measures are hard, but in the end if the rest of Europe follows them we will have a very strong Europe. If you give up we will have a Europe similar to current Spain: parts that need always cash from other parts and that are always calling them lacking solidarity while other parts fed up of so much solidarity. In Spain solidarity has not solved anything. Now Spain has needed a bailout for its banks. What makes a state progress is acting responsibly around.

If Spain had suffered a terrible earthquake or tsunami I would be the first to ask Angela Merkel to open her wallet. But I do not want to ask for her wallet so that civil servants in Spain do not need their wages to be cut while in Catalonia the civil servants have had their wages cut for months!

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THE.CAT LOVES ANGELA MERKEL

Today and tomorrow Angela Merkel meets other European politicians. As we all know she is almost alone. Most of the eurozone and the whole world wants Germany to pay the bill and Angela Merkel does not want to.

I live in one of those states that wants Germany to pay the bill but as I know a bit this state and also Germany I agree with Angela Merkel not paying the bill!

There is much talk about solidarity but I find the Germany paying the bill is not solidarity but blackmailing the German tax payer.

If we in Spain or other countries were dying of hunger I would be the first to ask solidarity to my friends in Germany.

But how can we ask solidarity  to Germany when:

- Spain will give 300000 euros to each football player if Spain wins.

- Spain does not cut civil servants wages even if IMFand Europe ask for that for months and even Catalonia has done that!

- One of the banks needing bailout in Spain is offering to pay 1 euro for receipt while other banks do not offer that.

- Spain has a high speed system that is much longer that the German one! Why should Germany show solidarity to such a wealthy state? Because if it has spent so much in high speed must be a wealthy country. And if this is not the case then this means that this country wastes the money so whythe German tax payer should show solidarity?

It is obvious that some kind of solidarity must exist between different parts of a  continent, state, city, etc.

But I wonder why should Catalonia show a lot of solidarity to the rest of Spain or Germany to the rest of the eurozone while people around the world are dying of hunger and do not receive solidarity?

So today eurozone members will try to convince Germany to pay the bill. In other words that German tax payer is responsible too of the expenses that may come from the rest of the eurozone. WHY SHOULD GERMANY ACCEPT THAT?

BECAUSE OF SOLIDARITY?

I do not know but in my case, I prefer that Germany puts a lot of euros in helping the third word than my country!

The problem in Europe is that a lot of people have seen Europe as a way of living like the Germans but only for the good things. So, we are enchanted to behave like Germans and go on holidays, eat well, have good hospitals, etc but we are not able to behave like Germans to be able to generate revenue like them. So we want to live like Germans but as this is not possible we want Germans to pay the bill.

I understand perfectly well that Germany is fed up of paying and paying because the same is happening in Catalonia with respect to Spain.

Catalonia gives a lot of money to Spain and what we get from Spain is less that what we give. But now with the crisis, in Catalonia we even have to cut wages to our civil servants while Spain still has not done so!

What kind of Europe do we want? A Europe where the south is subsidised by the north? I DO NOT WANT THAT!

I prefer to live in a poorer country, with less wealth, but with the dignity that comes from knowing that I can look at the eyes of my German friends and say: I DON’T OWE YOU NOTHING!

So I support Angela Merkel because I want to walk on my own feet! Angela Merkel is making a favour to Europe by rejecting to pay the bill! Angela Merkel wants that each state in the eurozone is able to pay its own bill! And for that she is insulted and portryed as the evil.

If Spain has problems in selling its debts what must do is to cut and to cut expenses so that it can live on its own. In this way it will have credibility. Unfortunately the solution that Spanish politicians have found for Spain to run is to ROB the Catalan and German tax payer. And they call that SOLIDARITY …

 

 

 

THE.CAT SUPPORTS ANGELA MERKEL

These lasts weeks and days we have seen as more voices ask Germany to pay the bill. There was even a time when THE.CAT supported eurobonds to be implemented right now.

But THE.CAT, after seeing some behaviours in Spain now has realised that Angela Merkel is quite right in not accepting Germany to pay the bill.

Here are two reasons why I support Angela Merkel not paying the bill:

1. The Spanish government does not cut civil servant wages or increase VAT.

The Spanish government would love Germany to issue eurobonds so that Germany would be too responsible to pay them back. But why should Germany want to be responsible of paying back when Spanish government does not cut expenses by cutting civil servants wages as Catalonia, for example, has done?

2. Spain wants Germany to become another Catalonia.

During decades Catalonia has been paying money to Madrid that has never returned back. Solidarity money. I have nothing against solidarity but I find a bit strange that in Catalonia we have to have huge cuts in health and education to give money to the rest of the state. It is OK to give solidarity money but it is absurd to give it when this means that you cannot afford to pay for your education or health!

So now Spain has not enough with Catalan money. Now it needs also German money. So if Angela Merkel accepted eurobonds this would mean that both Germany and Catalonia would be throwing money to parts of Spain which are out of their control.

Today a president of one part of Spain has mentioned Catalonia and Germany. He has said that Germany has been known to be one of the parts of Europe who is now known for its lack of solidarity (Germany always paying most of European funds and now this is the way it is thanked!) Now he says that Catalonia with the fiscal pact wants to be like Germany: without solidarity!

So as in Catalonia we do not have sovereignty and Germany still has sovereignty I beg the Germans not to give up and not issue eurobonds if they cannot control what happens in Europe. In Catalonia we have been paying during decades and decades for the poorer parts of Spain and the only thing we always get contempt! So Angela Merkel is very right in not wanting to pay the bill.

THE.CAT SUPPORTS 100% MERKEL

Maybe I am exaggerating 100% when I say that I support Angela Merkel 100% but this historic week we are going to see a confrontation between Italy and Germany. And I am not talking about a football confrontation but a confrontation between Angela Merkel and Mario Monti. Mario Monti spoke in Rome very angry words against France and Germany. He accused these two states of being the ones not to comply the rules of deficit some years ago. So the stakes are very high. Mario Monti has threatened to step down if Angela does not accept eurobonds. And Angela has said there won’t be eurobonds while she is in charge of Germany. Some weeks ago I also was in favour of eurobonds and I was also very angry with Angela Merkel.

But events in Spain have made me realise that Angela Merkel is quite right in not accepting eurobonds right now. If Angela Merkel accepts eurobonds that means that German tax payer is going to be responsible if Spain or other country with a bailout does not pay back. In some way Mario Monti wants Germany to pay the bill. And Angela rejects it. It is true that the eurozone can break up if Germany does not accept the eruobonds but why should Germany accept a eurozone where Germany is just the one to pay the bills? If the eurozone breaks up it would be terrible but Germany has less to lose than other economies of the eurozone.

In Spain we have been during decades with Catalonia paying the bill for the rest of Spain. The Catalan taxpayer pays more than he receives. In this way poorer parts of Spain receive a money they need. This is called solidarity. But people in Catalonia now are very fed up with all this because now with the crisis a lot of cuts have been applied to education and health in Catalonia.

So some people in Catalonia say that if we did not pay to much to Spain we would not need so many cuts in Catalonia. So I am afraid that Germany could end like Catalonia: to be the one to pay. Fortunately Germany is yet an independent state so that still can oppose to pay the bill. Angela Merkel was very very clear in Rome: Spain should be responsible of Spanish banks because she can control German banks but she cannot control Spanish banks! A country has to see how much money has and to act accordingly. I find outrageous to want  Germany to pay the bill while at the same time in Spain, the Spanish government does not cut civil servants wages or increases the VAT. The other day I was speaking about the eurocrisis and I said that the problem was that to solve the eurocrisis we needed the Germans to pay. And then I was answered: “Well, let them pay!”. Well, I am not like that! Now if Spain wins EURO2012 each player gets about 300000 euros. How can Spain have a bailout and even asks Germans to accept eurobonds? If you go to any city in Germany, Spain, Italy, etc you always find people that are serious and people that like more the fiesta. Not all Germans are responsible with their money. And not all Spaniards waste the money in fiesta. I happen to be the one who thinks that each one must pay its own fiesta! If Angela Merkel accepted eurobonds we would see immediately protests in the streets of Germany. The Germans would see the rest of the eurozone as a burden! In Spain Catalonia has been paying the bill for decades and now in Catalonia there is such a feeling of frustration. When we look at Germany we can see two things: they have money and they work in a serious way. If we want the eurozone to succeed what we should do is to try to work too in a serious way. Unfortunately it seems as if we just wanted the money. And Angela Merkel says NOT and I agree with her.

If the world sees a eurozone where we all act more in a German way then the eurozone gains credibility. On the other hand if the world sees that Germany must accept to pay the fiesta of the peripheral countries then the eurozone loses credibility. The solution is quite easy as I say: see how much money each country has. And act accordingly. It would be crazy for Germany to pay a bill when only Germans and other few care about switching off the lights when not needed. Let me end by saying that accepting the refusal for eurobonds of Merkel I know this maybe the end of the eurozone we know but I do not want a eurozone where the ones responsible have to pay for the fiesta of others. I do not want that Europe. I do not want the eurozone to copy the Spanish model: one part pays for the general fiesta. I do not want Germany to become Catalonia. I want Catalonia to become Germany.

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LAGARDE OR MERKEL. THAT IS THE QUESTION

Lagarde is the head of the IMF. But she is too a French citizen. Angela Merkel is the chancellor of Germany and not surprisingly she is a German citizen.
Today the stakes are very very high.
Lagarde wants Germany to pay the bill and Merkel wants each country to pay its bill.

I accept that maybe the only real solution now is the one of Lagarde. If Spanish banks bailout is only related to Spain then Spain cannot sells its debt in the future and we head to disaster. On the other hand if Spanish banks receive direct money from Europe as Spain wants and Lagarde wants too then Spain could still sell its debt. But for this is necessary that Germany “pays the bill”. “To pay the bill” means that if money cannot be returned from Spanish banks it is Europe the one to lose. So Germans, as the greatest contributors, will the ones more affected.

So, who will win, Cristine or Angela? Angela or Cristine?

Strange as it may seem looking at their looks you can easily see what each one stands for!

Angela Merkel wears cheap clothes and she has little glamour. She looks as a hard working German house wife. Her looks are below what she may look like as the most powerful woman in Europe.

On the other hand Critine Lagarde likes to wear expensive beautiful clothes. She sends an image of power and luxury.

Which image I prefer? Well, I think the best would be a mix! For me Lagarde look is too exagerated. Too luxurious. On th eothe rhand Merkel look maybe is too a bit exagerated! Looking at her it is difficult to remember that Claudi Schiffer is German too!

I think that the best should be an agreement so that banks receive money directly from Europe but with the condition that Germans can buy Spanish banks in the future at an advantageous price or something.

The idea could be that Germany saves Spanish banks and Spanish state by accepting direct help to the banks but on condition that the banks, once in good shape, become German banks.

And when I say Germany I just mean the countries who put morey to warrant the return of money if Spain cannot pay.

My conclusion is that Germany must be compensated in some way. If Germany is obliged to do something against general opinion in Germany it will happen the same that has happened in Greece: inestability and the right and left extrems winning a lot of votes.

Or to say in other words, if Spanish banks are going to be directly saved by Europe then those banks should become European banks. Maybe they could become the first really European banks in Europe!

IS GERMANY BEING FORCED TO PAY THE EURO BILL?

I am quite disturbed as I see that the IMF is asking Germany to give up so that Spanish banks receive directly money from Europe. This is VER VERY good news for Spain but I think it is NOT GOOD news for Germany as it means that if something goes wrong the debt goes to Europe (and most to Germany) and not to Spain.

It is obvious that things should be done to save the eurozone and I agree that maybe the only solution is for Germany to accept that Germany also has to give up.

But I find that quite dangerous.

I am quite angry because I see Angela Merkel as a responsible politician. Strange as it may seem I like the idea of austerity as a value at least in my personal life. On the other hand I do not like the arrogance of Spanish president. Did you know that he shows off of being the one to put pressure in Brussels?

I find quite unfair that the international community wants to force Germany to pay the bill of irresponsible countries like Spain!

I know this can be the only solution for the survival of the euro but I am very very angry that Angela Merkel has to give up while Spain does not cut civil servant wages or raises VAT.

If Germany is made to pay the bill and at the same time Spain does not cut wages to its civil servants then this means that something quite wrong is happening here. It is very weird that a country with the greatest rate of unemployment in Europe finds quite normal not to cut wages to its civil servants. In Catalalonia the government cut wages to its civil servants.

It is grotesque to see the Spanish government to showing off while it is Germany the one to pay. They should be ashamed that we need a bailout! Instead they put as a victory that we receive the bailout.

If Spain wins EURO 2012 then each player receives about 300000 euros. I find that an scandal.

If Germany ends paying the bill I am sure that in the future there will be a bigger movement in Gemrany that asks a return to the Deutsche Mark.

If I was a German citizen I would be very upset. I feel outrageous that the international community is putting its pressure on Germany and not in Spain. It is unacceptable that in Catalonia we cut wages to civil servants while in Spain they do not cut wages to civil servants.

In Spain Catalonia has been for decades giving more money to Spain than what has been received! I do not want that for Germany! One of the reasons why some people in Catalonia want independence is because they feel that Spain only wants Catalonia to pay and to pay. I am afraid that something similar could happen in the eurozone with Germany! If Germans have to pay and to pay there will be a moment that Germans will say enough is enough and they will choose to leave the euro! To oblige Germany to pay now the bill to save the euro it could mean that in the future Germany wants to leave the euro!

I feel as if the Spanish government was blackmailing Angela Merkel with the help of the IMF.

Each time I see the Spanish president smiling and with so much confidence I have the feeling he is thinking “Why should I worry? Germany will pay the bill!”

Europe should force Spain to make changes. It is crazy that Europe gives money to a country where there are so many people without job and at the same time the government does not cut expenses by cutting wages in the civil servants who have a job for life!

THE.CAT is with Angela Merkel. I find her ways much better that the ones of the Spanish government. Germany should put the things clear to countries like  Spain and the rest of the world: Germany will only pay the bill if the rest of the countries behave in a responsible way!

Spain wasted a lot of money to build high speed trains lines. We have more lines than most of the countries of the world, except France and some other. How come that Germany has to pay the bill now for a country who spend the money in a wrong way?

People from Germany: BE CAREFUL. MAKE SPAIN BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE BAILOUT RETURN. NOT EUROPE. DON’T TRUST THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT. TRUST THE.CAT!

SPAIN COULD BECOME LITTLE EUROPE

IBERIA

Imagine people from around Europe coming to Spain with its own factories, school teachers, etc.

Spain now has a lot of very cheap flats and houses. I think about 800000 houses or flats.

So, people from around Europe could live in Spain and feeling like at home. You only need to create the conditions to create communities.

So imagine people coming form Germany. They would come with their own jobs from Germany. And even from their own teachers. By doing that they would create a kind of German community. The same could be done with people from France, Italy, UK, etc.

As Spain is full of jobless people these people would come with their own jobs. Instead of working in cloudy and cold Europe they would be working in the sunny side of Europe. I am thinking about communities of about 100 people each, for example.

So, Spain could become quite an interesting place, not just for its current weather, beaches and art, but because it could become a Little Europe! A kind of Little Eurozone.

This would help selling the houses in Spain, people from Germany, etc would be able to live in Spain having their own cheap house and at the same time feeling like at home because they would come to a German community in Spain. And once in Spain, the German who wants to be with Germans all the time would be with Germans but the one who would like to know other people maybe would find a flat in a city with other people from Spain or other new communities!

If Europe is going to bailout Spain then maybe it would be a good idea that Europe feels that is helping not just Spanish people but any European living in Spain. This would help to make transfers of money between European countries more acceptable!

The German paying taxes to a bailout of Spain would be also bailing out a country with German communities!

The Mediterranean coast could be full of French, Italian, German, British etc citizens living here! The houses are so cheap! I am sure that some jobs that are made in Germany, etc, could be transferred to Spain.

GERMANY NEEDS EUROPEAN HELP

Nowadays I feel that the phrase EUROPE NEEDS GERMANY HELP can sound more familiar than GERMANY NEEDS EUROPEAN HELP. When we talk about eurobonds is is in someway like saying EUROPE NEEDS GERMANY HELP.

But there is something that worries me. It seems as if Germany could save a bit the eurozone by just accepting eurobonds and by the others accepting German austerity.

Living in a peripheral country needing a bailout for the banks it is easy to look at Germany and say: How lucky they are! I wish my country was in German position.

But if you think over and over it it is not very difficult that Germany is too in a very dramatic and stressful situation!

As far as I see the current situation in the eurozone the only solution I see to stop the attack to weaker countries is that Germany pays in someway the bills of peripheral countries. Eurobonds is the euphemism for that.

But let’s imagine that tomorrow Angela Merkel wakes up in a very rare mood and accepted that. Imagine that Angela Merkel said: “I HAVE CHANGED OF MIND. WE CANNOT REMAIN LIKE THIS. GERMANY IS GOING TO PUT ALL ITS STRENGTH TO DEFEND THE EURO. GERMANY ACCEPTS EUROBONDS AND TO PAY TH BILL AND ALL IS NEEDED IN ORDER TO SHOW TO THE WORLD THAT AN ATTACK TO THE EURO IS AN ATTACK TO GERMANY”

Well, if Germany did that it is obvious that in countries like Spain, Portugal, Greece, etc we wouldbe delighted! No more worries! The powerful Germany putting all its money to save us!

But then …

What would happen in Germany?

Well, it would be a nightmare in Germany! People in Germany would be so so angry that Angela Merkel would not last even a second more as chancellor!

Germans, I believe, have the feeling of being very careful in doing things in a proper way so they are proud of their country and its achievements. So, it is not strange they see they deserve to have a wealthy country because they do things in a right way for that goal. So to pay for countries which they see that have not acting in a proper way must be almost a crime.

I think this is the real dilemma now in Europe. If we want the euro to survive it is necessary that money from Germany goes to the weaker parts of th eurozone.

So I think that Angela Merkel is asking so much austerity to peripheral countries because it is a way to show to Germans that something is asked to the peripherla countries in exchange.

I think the dilemma is now a terrible one! If Germany does “not pay the bill” then the eurozone collapses and quite soon. On the other hand if Germany “pays the bill” then Germany has to get quite sure that the eurozone is under control.

But my big worry is that even if we have MEHR EUROPE, as Angela says, would this compensate the Germans?

I say that because I feel that having MEHR EUROPA is going to be a difficult path as states will have to lose sovereignty. But for peripherla countries it could be good as it means to have a strong currency. But for Gemrnay?

I am afraid that Germany could find that it creates a strong euzone but that the prize for that is a Germany that pays the bill.

And I can assure you that if a territory has the feeling that it is paying the bill that cannot be good.

Can you imagine Germany having to transfer a lot of money to Spain and at the same time having in the future an increase in jobless people?

So when I say that GERMANY NEEDS EUROPEAN HELP what I mean is that I find it is necessary that we realise that Germany is too in a very difficult situation.

Who says that a more integrated Europe would be a more peaceful Europe? I cannot imagine that a eurozone that needs money to pay the bills can last for long.

If Germany has too much power in the eurozone we will have a lot of friction as some countries would feel they are asked too much austerity. On the other hand if Germany is obliged (by US, China, etc) to bring stability to the eurozone by “paying the bill” then we will be creating a dangerous climate in Germany!

So I imagine one way to help Germany is to acknowledge the good things we can learn from Germany and try to have these good things in a European level.

We need to create in the eurozone more places like Germany. If the eurozone is to succeed it is necessary that we take the good things from each country.

I have friends in Germany. How on earth can I explain them that their country must pay the bill for Spain? Why should them accept that? The only way I see for them to accept that it is to get them assurances that Spain is not going to waste the money.

In Spain there are a lot of houses that are not sold. We had the real estate bubble and now some banks are in  trouble because they put money there. Why not come, for example, the Gemran, to live in Spain?