Funny, this is the equal of the Vichy France government telling England to give up. Furher Merkel now has no real opposition to Germany being the big dog on the Continent, west of Russia.
We are about to see a Fourth Reich. It won't be any more like the Third Reich than the Third was like the First or Second, but Germany is the only big dog left, and like pop tarts with Beyoncé, all the rest of the Euro countries will have to bow down.