The German bully of Europe

It's not that often I agree with Suzanne Moore. So that has to be noteworthy for a start. I find myself agreeing with Joseph Stiglitz more often -- and why not, I mean he is a Nobel Prize winner. I am pretty sure for all three of us to be in agreement is pretty exceptional though. Originally posted 2015-07-09 17:14:30. And what are we agreeing about? The Germany bully and its  atrocious, scandalous treatment of Greece, that's what. Margaret Thatcher's, fears, expressed before Germany was re-unified, have proven correct: Germany is once again Europe's bad-mannered thug, and it has long since begun to flex its muscles. Of course it always thus; three times in under 70 years, the German bully invaded its neighbours and created havoc. (Okay, the first was technically Prussia, but that's a detail.) The last expression of Germany's natural tendency to be King Rat caused 72 million people to be killed and Europe -- as well as substantial other parts of the glo