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BUNDESBANK 'NO' TO 'BLACKMAIL The eurozone can't allow any country to blackmail it with the threat of financial contagion, the chief of Germany's Bundesbank Jens Weidmann said on Friday. "In any case, we must not allow any country to blackmail us with the consequences of contagion," Weidmann, who is also a member of the governing council of the ECB, was quoted as saying in an interview with Kathimerini. He said Greece had to stick to the terms of the 130bn euro bailout programme agreed in March and he ruled out any extension of the programme's timetable to allow the country more time to reach its targets.

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by eurogreen on Fri Jun 15th, 2012 at 04:56:41 AM EST
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Is it me or does it seem that German politics resembles (in a creepy way) the Iranian regime?

Merkel is more like Ahmadinejad and the Bundesbank the Grand Ayatollah.

Are they a bank or is it just a huge basement with thousands of bloggers in pijamas? Do they have a Tweeter #account btw?

Oh... never mind that no day goes by that some new guy with the pompous title of BB Vice president feels the urge to pontificate on European policy. Kind of reminds me of the number of AlQaeda #2s that Bush used to kill every week.

by Euroliberal on Fri Jun 15th, 2012 at 05:59:30 AM EST
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LOL!

by Katrin on Fri Jun 15th, 2012 at 08:08:25 AM EST
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You have a point.

Both are theocracies, albeit with a different religion.

Both resort excessively to capital punishment.

Both have an Expediency Council

"The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed" William Gibson

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Fri Jun 15th, 2012 at 07:55:04 PM EST
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