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46. Merkel as a hardliner is a myth spun by the ones who paint her photo with a Hitler mustache

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Don't fall for it.

Schäuble is the hardliner in that administration, not Merkel, who is a fervent European Unionist at heart, and has actually gone to bat plenty for Greece while her party and (especially) her lower-income taxpayers have been howling at her to give Greece not another Euro before she either reduces their own tax burden (e.g. ditch the Soli), or spends it on German infrastructure. She is the one in the administration who has been trying hardest to find a way to keep Greece in the Euro even though she has been saying it in soft terms in order to not find herself out of a job the next morning (parliamentary systems can do that, unlike ours). The ones who paint her photo with a Hitler mustache are more like the Nazis than she ever was. If she could (which she can't legally), she would jail any German politician doing that publicly to a photo of Tsipiras or Varoufakis (which, incidentally, they haven't), while their people gleefully do so to her photo in Greece and publicly gloat about it.

Black markets have existed in (and, to a great extent, at times sustained) every country on the Mediterranean except maybe Monte Carlo at some time or other. Most still do so today. You aren't going to change a thousand year old way of life overnight.*

*on edit--though now is not too soon to start!