[SunkenCiv]

Thanks bruinbirdman.

As Silvio Berlusconi has now found out, this so-called Frankfurt Group means business. Only a few months ago, it would have been unthinkable that the head of one European government would try to destabilise or depose another. Now, two EU leaders have fallen in a week.

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[bruinbirdman]

. . . in a declaration which Merkel made last year: ‘We must re-establish the primacy of politics over the market.’

yitbos

[twistedwrench]

My Wife and I were talking about all the high profile people/leaders killed or replaced this year.
Berlusconi
Papandreou
Gaddafi
Mubarak

Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Osama Bin Laden

[bruinbirdman]

From L'Hebdo Lausanne:

Papandreou, Berlusconi: exit the politicians...

"... From now on, bureaucrats will be managed by technocrats..."

"... the stuff of dreams..."

At only a few days interval, the Greek and Italian prime ministers were replaced by Lucas Papademos and Mario Monti, two economists with experience of the European institutions and entrusted with enforcing measures demanded by the EU to combat the eurozone crisis.

yitbos