Merkel jeopardises European integration

Two days before the meeting of Europe's heads of government in Brussels the German chancellor is still resisting pressure from other countries to help Greece out with loans. The daily Dziennik Gazeta Prawna fulminates against Angela Merkel, saying she is endangering European integration: "Germany won't help Greece. And Merkel has also rejected her finance minister's idea of setting up a European Monetary Fund. The chancellor is bent on pleasing her people. Surveys show that if the citizens of the Federal Republic of Germany had their way they would get rid of the euro. The optimists who believe the crisis can be handled with a couple of billion are wrong. The euro is losing its fiercest advocate and becoming an endangered species. It is losing the battle against egoism. Berlin's approach is economic nationalism, a bomb that is aimed not only at the single currency but at European integration as a whole."

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