STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Tuesday, 26 June 2012

[Ghost Dog]

62. Germany risks being centre of empire that caused eurozone collapse (Soros)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has resisted all proposals to provide relief to Spain and Italy from the excessive risk premiums prevailing in the market, Mr Soros said. This week's summit of European Union leaders could turn into a "fiasco" because of Germany's aversion and will leave the rest of the eurozone without a strong enough firewall to protect it against the possibility of a Greek exit, he added.

"This may serve Germany's narrow self-interest but it will create a very different Europe from the open society that fired people's imaginations," said Mr Soros in an opinion piece in the Financial Times. "It will make Germany the centre of an empire and put the 'periphery' into a permanently subordinated position." ...

... He urged Merkel to abandon the "unrealistic and unreasonable" idea that a political union should precede a fully fledged fiscal and banking union.

"The three have to be developed together, step by step," Mr Soros said.

/more... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9355776/Germany-risks-being-centre-of-empire-that-caused-eurozone-collapse-warns-George-Soros.html

(Posted same+ here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002859746 )