Midtown Blogger/Manhattan Valley Follies: "A Nation Has the Right to Go Down With Dignity"

Sunday, July 5, 2015

"A Nation Has the Right to Go Down With Dignity" - Die Welt

Four times in a row one and the same subject - so much journalistic toughness Günther Jauch hardly anyone have expected. "The decision of the Greeks - the fateful day for Europe" He called his new mission to the Greek crisis this Sunday evening.

And already with the very first words of his mission on the referendum began Jauch the already extensive question it another.

"This election night will change Europe", claimed the presenter in his welcome address. He aroused an expectation, but he could not redeem approximately hereafter.

Neither ensued an informed discussion on how well the near future might look like in Greece. Nor was there any indication that there is a clear answer to the next steps of the other euro area countries, despite the no's of the Greeks.

For Jauch, the show was the last before a summer break of epic length. Only on September 27, he will return again, so now have a whopping eleven-free Sundays in front of him. Whether intentionally or Schusseligkeit failed the Moderator, to say goodbye to his loyal audience of millions despite all the criticism in this last break before his final talk from the end of the year.

Leaders went on dipping station

This last mission before the break was but under no good sign. Since short the CDU MEP Elmar Brok him had to cancel because his train was canceled due to bad weather. Because of the storm over Berlin in between the acoustics were miserable in his Gasometer.

In addition, it seems to be always already been difficult to get leaders in the shipment. "They're all gone a Splash", Jauch said - or to his almost parallel talk ends in a special broadcast ZDF rival Maybrit Illner. There were about Left Party leader Katja Kipping, or Union Group Vice Michael Fuchs, and for the presidency in the European Union Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn.

Jauch, however, had to take as well as a short-term replacement for the rather unknown Brok Union Group Vice Ralph Brinkhaus (CDU) to the Syriza Central Committee counted Greeks Giorgos Chondros on the political side Vorlieb.These came from journalism, the "taz" -Wirtschaftskorrespondentin Ulrike Hermann and the political advisor Michael Spreng. Compared with Illner significantly more lightweight cast.

The political lightweight was also the fact that the Greek and the German Chondros Brinkhaus hardly came over recrimination addition. Chondros accused the Germans of having built up in the past five years a completely false picture of Greece - there is a "misery", which is the absolute result of "austerity diktat" from Brussels. Brinkhaus said, however, "the humanitarian disaster we have in Sudan."

Who is so far apart in the perspectives, it is likely to have a hard time talking to each other reasonably foreseeable. Especially since on both sides still to come a pride associated. So called Chondros the outcome of the referendum "a huge act of democracy." The small Greece have indeed taken the step to regain the power of capital is something for the policy itself. This more political and philosophical contemplation faced Brinkhaus, who demanded concrete proposals and any remarks from Greece but questioned simultaneously. "It's no trust there." Greece could have gone with reforms in advance, it had but never did "That makes us gradually frankly stunned."

ECB could force the Grexit

This petty clash of opposing opinions politicians gradually scoring the Jauch-permanent guests "taz" -Journalistin Herrmann offered even the most concrete statements. Herrmann notified about the very piquant role of the European Central Bank in the coming days. "The question is what makes the ECB?". You must lift the emergency loans for Greece, so that banks in Greece can pay back money. "If not, then it suddenly becomes a political institution that enforces the Grexit" Herrmann said. Because then Greece must issue a replacement instead of Euro currency notes or similar.

Herrmann is for new editions of the ECB as well as new aids. It must be opened for Greece the way to a balanced budget, called for the journalist.

That could be a deal in which everyone wins. But if it really is not the willingness to compromise in Europe exists, is at least doubtful. Under the impact of the referendum brought political advisor explosive mood of the Greek skeptics after the referendum on the best in a nutshell: "Nevertheless, a nation has the right to go down with dignity, if it wants to."