{"id":6708,"date":"2015-03-22T07:55:19","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T12:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6708"},"modified":"2015-03-22T07:55:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T12:55:19","slug":"looks-like-germany-may-have-to-pay-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6708","title":{"rendered":"Looks Like Germany May Have To Pay Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"posttitle\"><a class=\"entry-title\" title=\"Looks Like Germany May Have To Pay Up\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theautomaticearth.com\/2015\/03\/looks-like-germany-may-have-to-pay-up\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Looks Like Germany May Have To Pay Up<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>German magazine Der Spiegel digs deep(er) into the \u2018Greece question\u2019 this weekend, and does so with a few noteworthy reports. First, its German paper issue has Angela Merkel on the cover, inserted on a 1940\u2032s photograph that shows Nazi commanders against the backdrop of the Acropolis in Athens. The headline is \u2018The German Supremacy: How Europeans see (the) Germans\u2019. The editorial staff has already come under a lot of fire for the cover, and I\u2019ve seen little that could be labeled a valid defense for further antagonizing both Germans AND Greeks (and other Europeans) this way. Oh, and it\u2019s also complete nonsense, nobody sees modern day Germans this way. It\u2019s just that their government after 70 years is still skirting its obligations towards the victims. That\u2019s what people, the Greeks in particular, don\u2019t like.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theautomaticearth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/SpiegelCoverMerkelAcropolis.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>Second: Spiegel\u2019s German online edition has a sorry that claims Greek paper To Vima will come with revelations on Sunday accusing Georgios Katrougalos, Syriza\u2019s deputy minister for Policy Reform and Public Service (I\u2019m translating on the fly) of corruption in the case of the reinstallment of public workers that had been fired under the Samaras government under pressure from the Troika.<\/p>\n<p>Allegedly, Katrougalos\u2019 law firm (in which he has had no active role since becoming a member of the European parliament last year) has a contract with these workers that will pay it 12% of whatever they receive in back pay. Predictably, the opposition has called for Katrougalos\u2019 firing, but Tsipras has said he talked to him and is satisfied with the explanation he was given.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks Like Germany May Have To Pay Up German magazine Der Spiegel digs deep(er) into the \u2018Greece question\u2019 this weekend, and does so with a few noteworthy reports. First, its German paper issue has Angela Merkel on the cover, inserted on a 1940\u2032s photograph that shows Nazi commanders against the backdrop of the Acropolis in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[1890,4330,281,4331,359,1167],"class_list":["post-6708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-angela-merkel","tag-der-spiegel","tag-europe","tag-german-supremacy","tag-germany","tag-greece"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6709,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708\/revisions\/6709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}