After the satirical suggestion that the Greeks forfeit their lands for their debt. Germany’s Bild tabloid newspaper has decided to have a light-hearted pop too. One thing for sure though, is I know the Greeks won’t see the funny side.
Could this be the cracks that will lead to fissures, or will the EU Machine manage to keep hold of ‘Her terrotories’?
Dear Mr Prime Minister,
If you read this print, you’ve entered a country completely different from yours. You’re in Germany.
- Here, people work until they are 67. There is no longer a 14-month salary for civil servants.
- Here, nobody needs to pay a €1,000 bribe to get a hospital bed in time.
- And we don’t pay pensions for the General’s daughters who sadly can’t find husbands.
- In this country, the petrol stations have cash registers, the taxi drivers give receipts and farmers don’t swindle EU subsidies with millions of olive trees that don’t exist.
Germany also has high debts – but we can meet them.
- That’s because we get up reasonably early and work all day. Because in good times we always spare a thought for the bad times. Because we have good firms whose products are in demand around the world.
Dear Mr Prime Minister, today you are in the country that sends umpteen-thousand of tourists and money aplenty to Greece.
We want to be friends with the Greeks. That’s why since joining the euro, Germany has given your country €50bn.
For this reason, we are writing to you,
Yours,
Bild Editorial
PS In case you want to write back, we have enclosed a stamped addressed envelope. Of course, we want to help you to save…
Cheeky but I had to laugh. Like many Europeans, they are finally waking up to the nightmare of bureaucracy that is the European Union. Give this another week and the EUSSR will pull another new law from the Lisbon Treaty hat. But the cracks are showing, that is a good sign.
We have been ruled by fools and cowards since 1945.
Just glad my sense of humour is still intact.
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