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Poschardt, Ulf
Redakteur Welt / Welt am Sonntag
2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Berlin plays bad cop
In demanding an EU budget commissioner for Athens Berlin is making itself even less popular, warns the conservative daily Die Welt: "A budget commissioner alone is of little use. ... Greece must set up an administration and a tax authority that meet Western standards. At the same time, like everywhere else in Europe, a basis for sustainable economic growth must be created. Greece can only regain its self-determination through growth. Even with no budget commissioner the Greek state can neither function nor make its own decisions without foreign help. It is up to Athens to improve things as swiftly as it can. It may be doubted whether the German plan for temporary foreign control over Greek finances would prompt the Greeks to recognise their faults. But as a provocation the plan for a budget commissioner has worked perfectly. Germany has accepted the role of the bad cop.
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More from the press review on the subject » EU Policy, » Economic Policy, » Germany, » Greece, » Europe
A bold move to Berlin for the Suhrkamp publishing house
The Sunday newspaper Welt am Sonntag welcomes the plans of Germany's renowned Suhrkamp publishing house to move from Frankfurt on Main to Berlin, saying this will give the city an intellectual boost: "Berlin's rich historical past still exerts a magnetic attraction on culture lovers all over the world 20 years after reunification. The decision not to resist this trend and to sacrifice the hermetic exclusiveness of the publishing house was a courageous move by the frequently disliked publisher [Ulla Unseld-Berkéwicz]. It is a step onto a highly varnished, over-popular stage that yearns for authentic players. Rumour has it that the publisher has sought out a location in battle-scarred Berlin that fits in well with the Suhrkamp tradition: The Nikolaihaus, built in 1670, was for centuries a meeting place for enlightened thinkers like Schadow and Schinkel. Next to it stands a rundown concrete pre-fab dating back to the GDR: a superb parcours for a house that publishes realist and deconstructionist works; bourgeois and ultra communist works alike."
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