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Greece bailout revives image of the ‘cruel German’ - WaPo http://j.mp/1OjTz2O
ギリシャに対するドイツの対応は欧州では酷評を浴びているが、国内的には支持も多い、というＷＡＰＯの記事。
ＷＡＰＯが取り上げているところが、興味深い。
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Greece bailout revives image of the ‘cruel German’ - WaPo http://j.mp/1OjTz2O
But, just like that, the image of the “cruel German” is back.
By insisting on years more of tough cuts and making other demands that critics have billed as humiliating, Berlin is wiping out decades of hard-won goodwill.
In the aftermath of the deal with Greece, the hashtag #Boycottgermany — calling on users not to buy German products — has started trending on Twitter. Evoking Hannibal Lecter, the cannibal from “The Silence of the Lambs,” some are sharing caricatures depicting Merkel as an E.U.-eating “Angela Lecter.” A cartoon portraying Wolfgang Schäuble — Merkel’s even-harder-line finance minister — as a knife-wielding killer from the Islamic State militant group has gone viral.
Greece had surrendered to austerity “with a German gun at his head.”
In Greece, those actively supporting the austerity deal are being heckled by their countrymen as “Nazi collaborators.”
French daily Le Figaro declared that “conditions were imposed on a small member state that would have previously required arms.” In a commentary that sneered at Merkel’s “half smile” after the deal was reached, Britain’s Guardian newspaper argued that rather than being cruel to be kind, the terms of the bailout were simply “cruel to be cruel.”
In its online edition, even Germany’s own Der Spiegel magazine decried the Berlin-led demands as “the catalogue of cruelties.”
“The heartless, dictatorial and ugly Germany again has a face, and that is Schäuble.
But much of the nation seems to be taking the latest round of German-bashing in stride.
Indeed, many here see it as simply further evidence that no matter what they do, theirs is always going to be the country that others love to hate.
ギリシャに対するドイツの対応は欧州では酷評を浴びているが、国内的には支持も多い、というＷＡＰＯの記事。
ＷＡＰＯが取り上げているところが、興味深い。
