Chancellor Angela Merkel's hard line on Greece and Eurobonds reflects the will of the majority of Germans. This is what emerges from a telephone survey conducted by Zdf, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, German public television, on a sample of 1312 voters. 60% of those interviewed would like Greece to leave the single European currency. The survey also shows that the majority of Germans are against Eurobonds. A figure that shows a trend reversal in the German electorate.
In November, only 49% of those interviewed said they were in favor of Greece leaving the euro. And the other polls confirmed an equal division among Germans on these issues. Angela Merkel is therefore not so isolated at home. Although your approval rating fell sharply in May, you remain to this day the German politician who enjoys the highest esteem among your compatriots. Her reasons, and those of her finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, are the ones that the Zdf pollsters heard over the phone. The Germans don't want to pay the price for other people's mistakes and mutilating the debt of weak eurozone countries is a prospect they don't want to accept.
