No Illusions
''Now it could happen that a convention initiated by Great Britain will
achieve precisely the opposite result, namely the division of Europe.
This, at least, is the fear that has senior crisis managers in Brussels
worried at the moment. Greece's financial problems are no longer at the
top of their list, but rather the possible departure of one of Europe's
largest countries.
No one in Germany wants this, but no one with any political
responsibility has any illusions about London's European policy, either.
"We find it regrettable that England is taking certain steps without
us," says Rainer Brüderle, the parliamentary leader of the
business-friendly Free Democratic Party (FDP). But he also knows where
Germany's policy priorities lie. "We must eliminate the birth defect of
the euro, and we need a stronger political union." And that, apparently,
will only be achievable without Great Britain...'' DER SPIEGEL
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