"It is illogical to argue that Germany's exit from the eurozone would not be a drama“. So Steffen Seibert, spokesman for the German chancellor Angela Merkel, commented today at the press conference on the statements made yesterday by Silvio Berlusconi. Seibert avoided explicitly pronouncing the name of the former Italian prime minister, but the reference to the Cavaliere is undoubted. "If Germany left the euro, it wouldn't be a tragedy," Berlusconi said yesterday during the presentation of Renato Brunetta's latest book.
To further mark the distance between Berlin and Arcore, the words of theGerman ambassador to Italy, Reinhard Schaefers, according to which the hypothesis feared by the Knight “would be a tragedy for all of Europe, for all of us”.
Schaefers then underlined the effectiveness of the relationship between Merkel and the current tenant of Palazzo Chigi, Mario Monti: “The collaboration between the chancellor and the prime minister is excellent. There is a desire on the German side that this spirit of collaboration and cooperation will continue”. Statements that could imply a wish for the realization of the Monti-bis project.
As for the policy of the president of the ECB, Mario Draghi, and his differences with the German central bank, Schaefers threw water on the fire, stating that the "chancellor expressed herself in a fairly constructive way" and that "the government's attitude ” German in general proved “equally constructive”.
