So Germany isn’t the best boy in the European class after all

Isn’t karma a funny thing? For the last few years the people of Greece have had to endure insufferably patronising moral lectures from Germany about how dysfunctional Greece is and if only it was more like Germany, life for Greeks would be so much better.

If only the Greeks paid their debts like the Germans, unless you ignore that Germany has in fact never repaid its debts.

If only Greek business was as honest and transparent as German business, unless you ignore the current Volkswagen scandal or the truth that dare not speak its name: that all German companies over 70 years old carry the permanent stain of being owned by Nazis, run for Nazi or benefitting from Nazi victims.