Le plan de Soros pour sauver l’euro : « L’Allemagne doit prendre le leadership ou bien se retirer »

Infographie : F. Descheemaekere

'Germany Must Lead or Leave' : George Soros' Plan to Save the Euro

[Spiegel Online]

Germany has the potential to either save the European Union and the euro or destroy both -- so it must either lead or exit the common currency zone. What can't happen is further waiting, star investor George Soros writes in an essay for SPIEGEL ONLINE. A role as a "benevolent hegemon," he argues, would be better than leaving the euro. 

The fate of the euro will be decided in Germany. That's what legendary investor George Soros writes in an essay this week published first by the New York Review of Books and later by SPIEGEL ONLINE in Germany. The 82-year-old believes that Germany either needs to be convinced or pushed to take greater action. And he argues that the country must either lead as a "benevolent hegemon" or leave the euro. Soros, a native of Hungary, has emerged as one of the leading critics of the German government's policies in addressing the euro crisis.[...]
Merkel's demand that each country provide guarantees for its own financial institutions was "the first step in a process of disintegration that is now threatening to destroy the European Union." At each point in time over the past three years, the crisis could have been solved relatively easily and inexpensively, Soros writes. Instead, Germany missed every opportunity to resolve the crisis, and the situation deteriorated to the point that the very survival of the euro came into question.

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