ECO-TERROR
European government finances: France and Germany built the euro together. Now they are demolishing the stability pact together
Germany and France, so long the European Union?s head partnership, have become partners in crime. [...]
Both Germany and France expect leniency. Jacques Chirac, France?s president, has asked for a ?temporary softening? of the stability pact - which amounts to saying the rules should only be applied when they are not being broken. Gerhard Schröder, chancellor of Germany, has asked the commission to be lenient and to place due emphasis on the ?growth? part of the ?stability and growth? pact. His pleas are faintly ironic given that the pact?s original German authors added the word growth to its title only on the insistence of the French.
[E, para quem gosta da análise de mega-instituições, recomenda-se a leitura do editorial desta Economist sobre a NASA. Título? "Time to scuttle the space shuttle". Não está disponível "online".]