“The breakup of the euro will lead to the breakup of Europe”. You choose Angela Merkel's apocalyptic tone to wake up the majority of her. Addressing the members of the government coalition, the German chancellor invited everyone to "think very carefully about the words to use in order not to unnerve the markets" of the eurozone.
After the latest electoral setback which also delivered Berlin into the hands of the Social Democrats of the SPD (fifth defeat for the Liberal Democrats out of seven administrative consultations in 2011), Merkel knows she is forced to work overtime. The game to save Europe from the debt crisis without bleeding the German coffers is intertwined with the internal political situation, which seems to be slipping more and more out of the chancellor's hands every day.
The litmus test will come on 29 September, when Parliament will be called to vote on the ratification of the anti-crisis plan agreed at the end of July at the European level. “For every decision that the coalition has to pass to the Bundestag we want to have a majority based on our strengths – reiterated the number one of Germany -. It has been like this so far this year, on every European policy decision, and I am confident that it will still be like this”.
