After giving in twice, Germany could now play a positive role

HAVING spent the past 18 months treating the economic crisis as a moral defect, eurozone leader Germany has made some remarkable strides in the last few weeks.

So far, its approach and that of the other non-crisis eurozone countries has been grudging, judgmental and inadequate at every stage.

The finance ministers’ meeting that continues today in Luxembourg and the two-day summit in Brussels later this week will tell whether this is finally changing.