TWO duelling German metaphors capture the strategy of Angela Merkel,
Germany’s chancellor, in the euro crisis. The pejorative version is that
she is using “salami tactics”, cutting off the thinnest possible slice
of any rescue sausage being negotiated so as to make it more digestible
for the German public. She has just done it again by belatedly accepting
the latest support package for Greece and manoeuvring it through
Germany’s parliament.
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