Let's be a little more strict

In some things Spain should follow Germany's example, writes the conservative daily ABC: "It wouldn't hurt us to adopt the kind of political stringency and moral determination that helped German society emerge from the crisis before the others. To exercise ourselves in their somewhat Lutheran collective discipline and respect for work. To be more efficient, dynamic, austere and less amateurish. While our Catalan nationalists want to be more like Quebéc and the Basques more like Switzerland … all of Spain should be taking a leaf out of Germany's book. It has a federal structure without the state losing authority or cohesion because of that, as is happening here with the autonomous regions. Germany has already done the homework we haven't even started to tackle, among other things because while it hurried to fight the recession we have spent two years discussing it and denying it."

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