[Olog-hai]

There's Germany's current finance minister espousing the pro-bailout line. So long as the draconian terms are agreed to, of course. The Commission stays as an unelected politburo, of course. He won't ever get an elected "president"; that's not the plans for the "super-president" that the Berlin Group is thinking about.

[CitizenUSA]

Leftists always double down on government. The only way to fix socialism when it inevitably fails is to further concentrate power in the masterminds. A Euro superstate with more power concentrated in fewer hands is a far, far more likely outcome than the dissolution of the EU.

[ScaniaBoy]

And when is Herr Schäuble going to ask the German people whether they think this is a good idea or not?

They probably won’t have anything to do with it, but then in the 30s they did vote for that mustaschioed man so who knows... History has shown that Europeans have a fondness for authoritarian rulers.

[wjcsux]

In the near future, I predict Germany will return to their own curreency, and will tell the EU to go pound sand.