“Germany ‘to study French economy’

Eyebrows must have been raised in Paris this morning after it emerged that Germany’s council of economic wise men are drawing up a report on the French economy.

It’s a Reuters exclusive: Worried Germany seeks study on French economy – sources.

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has asked a panel of advisers to look into reform proposals for France, concerned that weakness in the euro zone’s second largest economy could come back to haunt Germany and the broader currency bloc.

Two officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters this week that Schaeuble asked the council of economic advisers to the German government, known as the “wise men”, to consider drafting a report on what France should do.

Interesting timing, given that the French economy now appears to be shrinking (see 8.51am). President Hollande did announce new measures to stimulate growth this week but refused to go as far as a leading French industrialist, Louis Gallois, had wanted — seemingly fearing a public backlash.

Hard to believe that the French people would be more open to advice from Germany….”

This comes from The Guardian’s Eurocrisis blog. Well, well well… “advice from Germany” is it? Or The Frau getting too big for her boots?

It is beginning to become apparent that The Frau and her side kick little Wolfie (the guy with an enormous chip on his shoulder) have come to believe in their own supremacy  and divine right to lord it over the whole of Europe. All the same I do not think that the rumour going round that The Frau has a picture of Hitler at her bedside she enjoys jeering at and saying, “look you bozo, this is the way it is done!”, is unfounded.

Now in his attempt to persuade the Greek people that they must docilely agree to ruin their country because… no, not because there is no alternative, but because that is The Will of The Frau, Antonis Samaras told us that he even talked with God. Implying thereby that this was the will of God.

Well now, since this pathetic figure playing at being PM of Greece believes that The Frau is in fact God, he can be forgiven his misunderstanding. Always the mistress tactician, she no doubt assured him that all he had to do would be to drain the Greek economy of the very last dregs of its life blood, make a good swathe of the population go hungry, another good number die prematurely and so on, and she would hand him his “tranche” of 31 or so billion.

Now before we even tackle the question of what good could this money do anyway, if it is to go to the banks at the cost of destroying what is left of the Greek economy, we should perhaps address The Frau’s tactical deceit. She didn’t mean a word of it. All she wanted was… the usual. To gain time while fighting it out with the IMF. As to the loan installment. Oh well, we can’t release any of that till we have dealt with the overall debt. And perhaps we will not pay out any more at all.

Poor Antonakis. He believed The Frau. He worships the ground she treads on. It’s not so much that he is dumb, though he must be that too, it’s just that he wanted to be PM of Greece ever since he was a toddler and just does not want to relinquish the post. The Frau, therefore, is his only means of doing so. Though maybe, just maybe he has got that wrong after all.

Still, who cares about Greece? The problem is that Antonis Samaras appears to have done lethal, perhaps, disservice to the European Union as a whole. His servile worship of The Frau, actually taking her for God, has made the simple woman’s head turn. She actually believes it now. She actually believes she can dictate what the hell she likes to the whole of Europe. And has made her opening bid for total European hegemony with France now.

She and little Wolfie are on this great power trip. It looks as though they are really getting off on this illusion that Europe is theirs to boss around as they like. And Antonis Samaras must take much of the blame for creating this illusion in them.

The Frau is obviously getting a great kick out of this. However, since she seems to approach economics in a quasi religious moral vein, perhaps she should hark back to her Daddy the Pastor’s teaching and remember. Lucifer came to a vile end because he too believed he was God. Just like The Frau now.

Antonis Samaras prostrated himself before her and accepted absolutely everything and anything she demanded of him. Like Abraham who agreed to kill his own son because God demanded it of him. So can you blame the wretched Frau?

What Samaras should have done is remind her not of Abraham’s servility to God, but the ancient Greek philosophy of Hubris, Nemesis, Catharsis. But of course he has forgotten everything Greek since the only thing that matters to him is pleasing The Frau. Whatever that might mean for the Greek people.

But remember Antonaki, this kind of Hubris is always followed by Nemesis. And not just for The Frau and little Wolfie either.