Germany prone to megalomania

Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg has warned Germany not to succumb to megalomania in its defence of the euro. Small states react sensitively when Merkel and Sarkozy decide policy between themselves and then merely inform the others of the result, Schwarzenberg stated in an interview with the German news magazine Der Spiegel. The conservative daily Lidové noviny welcomes the minister's clear words: "Everything centres around Berlin. Only in theory are the other states equal partners. The only time they attract attention is when they fail to give the Germans their approval. Never has Berlin's attitude been so clear: 'Those who are not with us are against us'. ... Schwarzenberg is right to say that the euro is only one of several instruments, and that Europe would survive without it. Berlin has not yet decided what is to happen with the euro. Anyone who declares in such a situation that the only way forward is together with Germany and that other allies are unimportant is just being naive."

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