German politics more by the buck than book?
The hearing is the latest in a long line of embarrassing incidents that casts doubt on whether leaders of the most powerful nation in the EU are as honest as they claim to be.
Germans think of themselves as upright and impeccably honourable. The general view is that Mediterranean countries are poorly run and mired in scandal while Northern European countries play by the rules. The trial of the disgraced Wulff, however, has turned that notion on its head.
