Thread: Britian Must Never Put Up With German Domination

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/284620

BRITAIN MUST NEVER PUT UP WITH GERMAN DOMINATION


Saturday November 19,2011


GERMANY’S tragedy is that it is a strong country surrounded by weak ones.


Inevitably it gets dragged into the problems of its neighbours. But when it intervenes the temptation to dictate solutions proves hard to resist.

German chancellor Angela Merkel is now seeking to dictate not merely to fellow members of the stricken euro but to all members of the European Union, including the United Kingdom.

Not content with deposing elected prime ministers in Greece and Italy, she has let it be known that she has certain demands she expects Britain to abide by too.

First, she does not wish David Cameron to put forthcoming changes to EU treaties to a referendum of the British public – even though he has promised not to evade democratic accountability on EU matters.

Secondly, she wishes to use a tax on financial transactions as a cash cow for the whole EU even though the majority of the burden would fall upon the City of London.

German chancellor Angela Merkel is now seeking to dictate not merely to fellow members of the stricken euro but to all members of the European Union, including the United Kingdom.


That her finance minister is also boasting that soon Britain will be clamouring to join a euro in which countries have to abide by stricter fiscal rules only intensifies the impression that Germany is hell-bent on continental domination.

As always, the responsibility of a British prime minister is to stand up to Germany – alone if necessary. David Cameron did not exactly sell the pass yesterday but neither did he guarantee the British people their first European referendum since 1975.

But such a referendum is becoming inevitable. And when it takes place the correct question to ask is not whether the electorate endorses the creation of a single currency superstate dominated by Germany but whether Britain is better off out of the EU altogether.

Another opinion article on the crisis.


http://www.china.org.cn/opinion/2011-11 ... 945781.htm


The Euro Crisis: road to a Fourth Reich?
By Geoffrey Murray November 17, 2011

United we fall [By Jiao Haiyang/China.org.cn]




The foundation stone on which the ideal of European unity was built threatens to split apart under the duress of the ongoing Euro crisis.

The organization that now calls itself the European Union was established after the WWII with the overriding aim of containing Germany.

The country that brought wholesale death and destruction to the entire Continent in two world wars was to be ring fenced by layers of interlinked legal, political and economic obligations to former enemies that would ensure it never again sought European domination.


That complex web carefully woven over the past half century or more may be in danger of unraveling and it's little wonder that the German Chancellor Angela Merkel has described it as 'the worst crisis facing Europe since WWII."

She has been promoting the idea of the EU to have a greater say in the domestic governance of the euro zone's 17 members, including real European power over countries' budgets. The only way out was 'more Europe, not less Europe".

Meanwhile, her conservative Christian Democratic party is demanding changes in the voting system within the European Central Bank - based on national economic strength not one country-one vote as now. Guess who that would benefit?

Such ideas have reopened the supposedly long-healed scabs of anti-German feeling across Europe rarely seen since the Nazis were crushed in 1945.

When an EU task force was recently sent to Athens to try and find ways out of Greek debt crisis, it was unfortunately led by a German official named Horst Reichenbach. The Greek press quickly pounced by renaming him 'Third Reichenbach' after the Hitler-led Third Reich, with cartoons of him dressed in a Nazi uniform.

His Athens headquarters was dubbed 'The New Gestapo Headquarters' by one newspaper showing that some Greeks have not forgot, or forgiven, the Nazi occupation of their country in WWII.

Hitlers' great nemesis, the United Kingdom, was not far behind, with the conservative Daily Mail newspaper claiming the Germans were trying to use the economic crisis to create a 'Fourth Reich' and achieve long-last European domination that the Nazis ultimately failed to achieve.

Poland, one of the country's that suffered longest and most from the Nazi occupation (turning parts of the country into a mass extermination industrial complex) is another critic; indeed, allegations of revived German imperialism became a hot issue in a recent election there.

This was not much of an issue in the early decades of the EEC/EC/EU. Germany was somewhat emasculated in the Cold War by the physical presence of the Berlin Wall that divided it into two separate states one pro-West and one owing loyalty to Moscow.

The collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 altered all that. A reunited Germany emerged on the world stage as the most populous and prosperous country in Western Europe, leading to rediscovered confidence and, in some cases, a hankering after some of the ideas that the Nazis were spreading in the 1930s.


The words may be different but Angela Merkel's words above, even if draped in trans-European clothing are not much different from that of the 'Ãœbermensch' propaganda of a superior people whose historical mission was to lead Europe to a new Utopia.

One interesting aspect of the present Euro crisis is that the currency was supposed to rein in not unleash German power, and for this we have to blame the French. A look at the history books will show that it was French President Francois Mitterand who insisted on the disappearance of the Deutschmark and its replacement with a single European currency in which everyone would be equal.

Well, not really – because this would be a Europe in which the Germans provided the economic firepower and the French the political leadership. Everyone else would have to fall in behind the two leaders.

I doubt the French can now restrain Germany, and, if not they, then who?

Not the British, certainly. Both France and Germany have always been suspicious of Britain's European credentials, heightened when London stayed out of the Euro zone (wisely, as it has turned out). Britain is now a lightweight with too many domestic problems to cope with and little cash to stand up to German economic might.

Italy? Not a chance; it is now embroiled in the debt crisis and needs a long time to rebuild under new leadership. Beyond that, there isn't a single country in Europe that has the political or economic muscle to match Germany.

These are, indeed, dangerous times for a weakened Europe spell disaster for the world economy. There has been talk of China stepping in to help ease the debt crisis, but I wonder if China would really want to get embroiled in this veritable vipers nest?

Leaked: Germany’s Latest Plan to Dominate Europe
November 21, 2011 | From theTrumpet.com


Why does Germany see Ireland’s budget plans before the Irish Parliament does?

Germany wants highly-indebted eurozone countries to be subject to automatic sanctions and a European Monetary Fund to manage the bailouts, according to a German Foreign Office memo leaked to the Telegraph. Germany is plotting to make these changes in such a way that they don’t trigger a referendum in the UK.

“Further development in the area of fiscal policy in the eurozone is essential for the permanent stabilization of the euro, and also of utmost importance for the entire EU,â€

http://www.thetrumpet.com/?q=8819.7580.0.0
Germany Plays Nuclear Chicken With World’s Economy

November 15, 2011 | From theTrumpet.com
The future of the world hangs in the balance. What is Germany waiting for?


Robert Morley Paul Krugman, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard and Nouriel Roubini agree: If the European Central Bank (ecb) doesn’t start printing money—and fast—the eurozone as we know it is dead.

I never thought I would say this, but Krugman might be right! In this debt-swamped, debt-addicted world, the only way to stop—at least temporarily—the economic collapse might be to pay off the debts with newly created money. Yes, there could be a devastating cost! Savers could get hurt, the euro could plummet in value, inflation could soar—but it might buy the eurozone some time.

And time is running out.

If the ecb had printed money when Greece first got in trouble, a couple hundred billion might have halted the collapse in its tracks. But the ecb refused. Greece erupted in flames. It refused again. And the crisis engulfed Ireland. Another refusal. The crisis spread to Portugal.

Last week, the markets turned on Italy. This is no small event. The cost to borrow for the Italians is skyrocketing, while their economy is shrinking. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was forced to resign. Italy is the third-largest economy in the eurozone. It has the world’s fourth-largest debt market. Without Italy, there is no eurozone—at least not one that can be called a common European currency.

If the euro is to be saved, a line in the sand must be drawn, and soon.

Even now, with Italian five-year borrowing costs spiking to 7.5 percent, Italy and the eurozone could be saved. But if the ecb doesn’t act quickly, it will need to print trillions instead of billions to stave off collapse.

With each passing day, the risk of eurozone meltdown grows.

But why won’t the ecb act? Why won’t it do what every other central bank in the world would do? That is the golden question. That is the question making the Krugmans and Roubinis of the world pull out their hair.

Everyone knows that the ecb is essentially a German-run bank. Surely Germany knows that if Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal collapse there will be no one to buy its bmw’s. If the euro falls apart and the Europeans go back to their individual currencies, surely it knows that the German mark would soar in value, while the lira, drachma and other currencies would plunge. Who could afford expensive German imports then? German workers would quickly get a taste of the unemployment line—and a longing for the socialized welfare they so criticize the Italians for.

What has gotten into Germany? Surely the elites realize that in this interconnected world, the whole global economy is at stake.

A sense of frustration and incredulity is growing. “America and China must crush Germany into submission,â€

The EU's architects never meant it to be a democracy
The rise of a "technocracy" was always part of the plan for Europe.


By Christopher Booker

7:18PM GMT 12 Nov 2011


So, as headlines scream that vain bids to save the euro threaten us with “Armageddonâ€