{"id":545922,"date":"2010-04-28T08:05:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T12:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/how-germany-made-the-greek-crisis-worse-2010-4"},"modified":"2010-04-28T08:05:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T12:05:11","slug":"heres-what-germany-did-to-make-the-greece-crisis-even-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/545922","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s What Germany Did To Make The Greece Crisis Even Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Greeks are mainly responsible for their current predicament. But the German government has made the country&#8217;s situation worse with its lectures and reluctance to provide assistance. Chancellor Angela Merkel is mainly to blame for the fact that German taxpayers now have to suffer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.&#8221; This piece of wisdom, known as Murphy&#8217;s Law, currently applies extraordinarily well to economic policy in the euro zone.<\/p>\n<p>On the one side there are the Greeks, who clearly still do not have their financial statistics under control and who produce one false report after another about the country&#8217;s budget deficit. On the other side are the Germans, who delight in hindering a rapid and unambiguous European response to the Greek crisis &#8212; in the process driving the cost of a solution through the roof.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/europe\/0,1518,691650,00.html\">Continue reading at Der Spiegel &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/how-germany-made-the-greek-crisis-worse-2010-4#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/3mg0u41JS6g\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greeks are mainly responsible for their current predicament. But the German government has made the country&#8217;s situation worse with its lectures and reluctance to provide assistance. Chancellor Angela Merkel is mainly to blame for the fact that German taxpayers now have to suffer. &#8220;Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.&#8221; This piece of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}