Well okay, The Frau didn’t put it quite like that. But that was what she meant. The jist of it being that either Europe and the Eurozone will comply unequivocally to what she wants or… or what Angela? Think about it.
You say you want the Euro, and you do of course, because it has been extremely good for you, if for nobody else. But you want it on your terms alone. That is turning the European project into a a German Empire with vassal states and protectorates. States that will be stripped of all their rights, their very sovereignty while Berlin (well yes, it will be Berlin and not Brussels anymore) decides on everything. Naturally with Germany’s interests, as The Frau sees them, first and foremost.
However, since the rest of Europe is unlikely to surrender its very being to you without a fight (don’t forget, they didn’t do that even with a hell of a fight) why don’t you concentrate on something more constructive?
The Euro as you envisage it cannot and will not survive. You do not intend to compromise on anything. So what is left? An orderly winding down of the Euro, perhaps even the EU itself. That is all that is left in the light of German utter intransigence and the strangulation of the economies of an ever growing number of Eurozone states, because of the Nonsense Economics you insist on imposing.
So rather than keep wasting everybody’s time and kicking the wretched battered can down the road, take a realistic and creative approach. When you meet Francois just tell him. Okay. Game over. Lets all work on the least disruptive way to wind down what has turned out to be an unsuccessful experiment. Lets all shake hands and part as friends who can work together again in the future in a more sensible way.
Otherwise all this Nonsense talk of “not as long as I am alive” will only lead to bad ideas from desperate people. Do not tempt fate my dear Frau. You have shown us, from how you have treated the people of the indebted Eurozone countries, that for you, the life of others is not precious.
That may prompt some demented maniac to think the same about yours. Tone it down Lady, tone it down!