It's not just Greece that disturbs Angela Merkel's dreams. According to the Financial Times, the newspaper that was the first to give news of the German will to commission Athens, the chancellor would have suffered strong pressure from her own majority also on the front of the new European budgetary discipline. The Berlin Parliament is asking for greater rigidity to be imposed during the European summit which opened today in Brussels.
"As it is now, the draft fiscal compact is not enough“said a member of the Cdu. The more conservative wing wants even more stringent automatic sanctions in cases of non-compliance with the deficit and debt limits and a faster timetable for the introduction of constitutional constraints on budgetary rules in the 17 eurozone countries.
Even greater rigor is required on the Greek front: "If Athens does not implement the reform program, there will be no more aid," Horst Seehofer, leader of the Bavarian Christian Socials, the sister party of Merkel's CDU, said yesterday. The Minister of Economy, the Liberal Democrat Philipp Roesler echoes him: "If the Greeks are not able to act on their own, there must be stronger leadership and external supervision, for example from Europe".
