Online, the Wall Street Journal's front page includes the observation that
In Paris during the past couple of years, a new style of restaurant has emerged that is more attuned to the straightened financial circumstances in which many citizens find themselves.Restaurants catering to Parisians who are starting to go straight and pay their taxes? I doubt it. But they may be in straitened circumstances.
The New York Times carries an interesting piece about a newly confident Germany. Younger Germans are not burdened with guilt.
Germans, the report suggests, "are more disenchanted than ever with the financial demands of the European Union". A rising young politician has named "not France or Poland but China and its neighbors as the most important countries for Germany’s future".
An industrialist claims that Germany enjoys a stellar reputation among businessmen in growing markets like India, China or Brazil, which prize “made in Germany” and Beethoven but do not share Europe’s memories of the war. “When I’m overseas, I hear all the time that we should take more pride in our nation,” he said.
How long before German politicians cannot persuade their electorate to shoulder further EU burdens?
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