[Osem]

Whether it's true or not doesn't really matter does it? (Who knows, other than the German government what their ulitmate goal for the EU is and how far they'll go to achieve what they may well deem the only way for Germany and the rest of the EU to continue to survive and eventually prosper?). It's how Greeks (and others on the receiving end) see it and react that matters. Even overlooking 20thC history, I predict plenty of unhappy and impoverished people will perceive the realities of German economic control very negatively and react accordingly. That doesn't bode well for any of us either economically or for a politically stable Europe and as the stakes get higher the more uncertainty about what happens next there is.