Rising unemployment would jeopardise Mrs. Merkel’s chances for re-election in September 2013. Perhaps for that reason, most economists are betting that Germany will eventually do whatever is necessary to end the crisis. The surest way is for the European Central Bank to buy the debt of fragile countries like Italy, a notion that terrifies Germans, still impressed by their grandparents’ memories of hyperinflation. If that is what the bank’s new president decides to do, Mrs. Merkel may not stand in the way. 作者: 走读生 时间: 2011-12-24 05:01