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French Socialists Call Germany Selfish, German Social Democrats Suggest French Lazy
Breitbart ^ | 4/30/2013 | John Sexton

Posted on 04/30/2013 6:43:23 PM PDT by markomalley

A war of words has broken out in Europe between Francois Hollande's socialist party in France and the Christian Democrats led by Angela Merkel in Germany. The split between the two nations has become so bitter that some papers are suggesting the allies may be "heading for divorce."

The spat began last week when the French socialists leaked a draft of a party policy paper which attacked the "selfish intransigence of Mrs Merkel." The 21 page paper argued that England and Germany were responsible for the problems in Europe and were pushing right-wing politics of "deregulation, deindustrialisation and disintegration."

Perhaps the most strident quote from the socialist paper reads "The [EU] community project is now scarred by an alliance of convenience between the Thatcherite accents of the current British prime minister – who sees Europe only as à la carte and about rebates – and the selfish intransigence of Chancellor Merkel who thinks of nothing else but the savings of depositors in Germany, the trade balance recorded in Berlin and her electoral future."

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1 posted on 04/30/2013 6:43:23 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

That right there is the classic argument between workers and takers.


2 posted on 04/30/2013 6:44:57 PM PDT by webheart (King of the Passive Voice)
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To: markomalley

When was the last time Germany worried about what France had to say?


3 posted on 04/30/2013 6:46:17 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: markomalley

“If Socialist understood economics, they wouldn’t be Socialist.”.....Friedrich von Hayek, Nobel Prize, Economics


4 posted on 04/30/2013 6:48:55 PM PDT by Beave Meister (Die Hard Cubs Fan.....if it takes forever.)
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To: markomalley

Dear Germany,

You may keep France this time.

Signed,

America


5 posted on 04/30/2013 6:49:45 PM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark
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To: markomalley

Well, you know that it would be just a matter of time before the UK and German workers tired of essentially supporting/subsidizing the French slacker workforce.


6 posted on 04/30/2013 6:51:19 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

Dear Germany,

You may keep France this time.
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I’m pretty sure that’s the LAST thing the Germans want to get stuck with.


7 posted on 04/30/2013 6:52:28 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: markomalley

Three of the links cited in the excerpt alone are to British publications. Quite expected.


8 posted on 04/30/2013 6:53:17 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: markomalley

Five links in the whole piece to UK publications. ;-)


9 posted on 04/30/2013 6:55:37 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: markomalley
Melissa Theuriau photo: Melissa Theuriau__[beauty] MelissaTheuriau__beauty7.jpg

Melissa Theuriau announcing the French surrender and her willingness to collaborate in 3...2...1...

10 posted on 04/30/2013 6:56:44 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: webheart

makers and takers

the argument is going on here as well


11 posted on 04/30/2013 6:56:45 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

they can have englanistan this time too.


12 posted on 04/30/2013 6:58:51 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: markomalley

Like two whores arguing who is more chaste!


13 posted on 04/30/2013 7:09:48 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (The Team: Progressives, Margret Sanger, Josef Mengele and the Butcher of Philadelphia)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

It’s like Lindsay Lohan calling Paris Hilton a coke head slut.


14 posted on 04/30/2013 7:13:00 PM PDT by Beave Meister (Die Hard Cubs Fan.....if it takes forever.)
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To: markomalley; martin_fierro; Charles Henrickson

Ich bin kein Bumloser


15 posted on 04/30/2013 7:13:46 PM PDT by mikrofon (Ich bin ein Tagliner)
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To: Snickering Hound

Not guilty


16 posted on 04/30/2013 7:34:33 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

Straight up, only I don’t think Germany is that stupid this time. France has a little islamic problem on its hands and Germany has no J00’s to kill right about now.


17 posted on 04/30/2013 8:12:06 PM PDT by Michael Barnes (Obamaa+ Downgrade)
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To: markomalley

LOL they are probably both right LMAO


18 posted on 04/30/2013 9:43:52 PM PDT by munin
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