Helpful false report over Euro exit

The German news portal Spiegel Online reported last Friday that Greece was considering leaving the Eurozone. The economist Yanis Varoufakis suspects in the liberal news portal Zeit Online that this was a signal to politics that the time has come for new solutions: "The key question is: why did Spiegel Online publish the story although the journalists must have know that large parts of it were incorrect? One possible answer: Spiegel, which has close ties to German politics, worked together with certain government circles - particularly the Ministry of Finance - to send a signal to the Chancellor's Office and the Greek Prime Minister. The message: the time has come to start a debate in Europe which has been successfully suppressed for a year. A debate on new solutions to the euro crisis, because the old ones are on their last legs. If this really was Spiegel Online's intention, the magazine has been at least partially successful."

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