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Intelligence Squared Debate: Angela Merkel Is Destroying Europe

08/12/2013 GMT

Angela Merkel Is Destroying Europe

BBC World News - Intelligence Squared Debate, Angela Merkel Is Destroying Europe

Are Angela Merkel's austerity measures strangling the economies of nations like Greece?

The panel debates whether austerity measures Angela Merkel insists that nations like Greece and Portugal adopt are strangling their economies or is Germany being scapegoated?

The austerity measures Angela Merkel insists that nations like Greece and Portugal adopt are, say some, strangling their economies, creating huge unemployment and making it impossible for them to pay off their debts. But is Germany being scapegoated for being Europe's largest and best run economy? While many EU countries recklessly disregarded the rules on fiscal discipline when they signed up to joining the Euro, Germany kept real wages down and experienced low rates of growth.

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