Attac Germany

Introduction: Europe at the crossroads

The Euro is in danger. This danger comes from those who claim to be its saviours in the current crisis – from the German government, the parties supporting it, and most of the German media. They believe that responsibility for the crisis lies mostly with those members of the Eurozone that have trouble servicing their debt, and have therefore been forced to subject themselves to the EU’s as well as the IMF’s socalled ‘conditionalities’. In a rerun of the last decades’ debt crisis in the countries of