Merkel y Hollande: condenados a entenderse para salvar a Europa

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Angela Merkel y François Hollande tendrán que llegar a un compromiso para que la Unión Europea siga adelante.

La relación entre Francia y Alemania ha sido la columna vertebral de Europa desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Helmut Kohl y François Mitterrand se tomaron de las manos al recordar la pérdida de vidas en la batalla de Verdún.

"Europa no puede ir adelante sin el motor franco-alemán", dijo el expresidente francés Valery Giscard d'Estaing.

El general De Gaulle describió a Alemania como el caballo y a Francia como el jinete. El presidente Nicolas Sarkozy describió a ambos países como "gemelos opuestos".

Nunca han sido los líderes de Francia y Alemania tan importantes para el futuro de Europa como ahora, con la crisis de la eurozona a la deriva.

Horas después de juramentar como presidente francés, François Hollande viajó a Berlín para cenar con la canciller Angela Merkel, quien expresó que lo recibiría "con los brazos abiertos".

Pero su abrazo ocultó cierto bochorno. Ella había apoyado abiertamente al presidente Sarkozy durante las elecciones en Francia, casi haciéndole campaña.

En Berlín sospechan de Hollande. No les gusta el hecho de que durante la campaña elevó el nivel de críticas contra las medidas de austeridad y abogó por el crecimiento. Muchos vieron eso como un intento de reclamar el liderazgo francés en Europa.

Políticamente vienen de bandos diferentes.

Merkel, quien creció en la antigua Alemania Oriental comunista, es consciente de la historia alemana y de las lecciones de la República de Weimar: que la inflación descontrolada puede destruir la democracia.

Ha elogiado la sabiduría del ama de casa suabia, una ciudadana modelo del sur de Alemania, célebre por su frugalidad y ahorro. Su actitud instintiva para con los griegos y otros era que se les debía enseñar una lección, de que necesitaban vivir dentro de sus posibilidades.

El exprimer ministro griego George Papandreou imploró a Angela Merkel por condiciones más fáciles para el primer préstamo del rescate.

Ella respondió: "Queremos asegurarnos de que nadie más desee esto". Los terminos del rescate tenían la intención de ser una dura lección para otros.

François Hollande hizo de su oposición a la austeridad un tema importante de su campaña.

Hollande es un socialista que se curtió políticamente durante la presidencia de François Mitterrand.

Su instinto más agudo es preservar el modo de vida francés, con su modelo de bienestar social. Durante su campaña prometió elevar el salario mínimo, contratar a decenas de miles de nuevos profesores y suavizar la edad de retiro.

Políticamente, ella lo considera un socialista que cobra impuestos y favorece el gasto.

Su división más crítica es sobre la austeridad. François Hollande no cree que la política esté funcionando.

"La austeridad no puede seguir siendo la única opción", afirmó. Durante la campaña se comprometió a renegociar el llamado "pacto de estabilidad" encaminado a hacer cumplir la disciplina en la eurozona.

Para la canciller Merkel, este pacto es la clave de la supervivencia futura de la moneda única y ha reiterado que "no está abierto a negociaciones".

Hollande respondió a eso diciendo que "no le corresponde a Alemania decidir por el resto de Europa".

La visión en Berlín es que el nuevo presidente francés no estuvo al nivel de su audiencia. En privado aclararon que no podría haber renegociación. Creen que Hollande entiende eso.

Sin embargo, no ha habido sobresaltos por las aseveraciones del portavoz del Partido Socialista de Francia, Benoit Hamon, quien dijo a la television francesa: "No votaremos para que haya una presidenta de la Unión Europea llamada Señora Merkel, quien decide el destino de todos los demás".

Políticamente entienden que será difícil para Hollande retroceder en su compromiso para renegociar el pacto, al menos hasta después de las elecciones parlamentarias en junio.

Por ello los funcionarios esperan algún compromiso.

Merkel aceptará un acuerdo relacionado con el crecimiento que vaya de la mano con el pacto de estabilidad. Podría aceptar también el desvío de fondos de la Unión Europea a grandes proyectos de infraestructura y la expansión de la base de capital del Banco Europeo de Inversiones.

La canciller alemana Angela Merkel apoyó abiertamente el intento de Nicolas Sarkozy de lograr un segundo periodo.

Lo que no comprometerá es su oposición a financiar el crecimiento con préstamos.

Algunas de estas discusiones serán tensas y difíciles. Merkel, por ejemplo, se opondrá a que el Banco Central Europeo preste directamente a los gobiernos.

Una de las primeras preguntas al nuevo mandatario francés es su posición en torno a Grecia. ¿Está de acuerdo con el gobierno alemán en insistir que Grecia acepte los términos del rescate para permanecer en la eurozona?

¿O cree que se suavizarán los términos a través de una renegociación? Esa decisión podría tener que tomarse en unas semanas.

Hollande también parece desear que Francia y Alemania sean menos dominantes.

"La relación franco-alemana ha sido exclusiva", expresó. "Las instituciones europeas han sido descuidadas y algunos países, especialmente los más frágiles, han tenido la desagradable sensación de enfrentar una junta ejecutiva".

Los alemanes están ansiosos de que el nuevo presidente francés pueda competir por aliados dentro de la Unión Europea.

La clave para Berlín es que Hollande se apegue a su promesa de balancear el presupuesto para 2017 y bajar al déficit de Francia a 3% para el año entrante.

Los funcionarios en Berlín dicen que la realidad dejará muy poco margen de maniobra al mandatario francés.

Cualesquiera sean sus diferencias, la crisis en la eurozona los pondrá bajo una enorme presión para llegar a un compromiso.

Después de todo, la canciller Merkel y Nicolas Sarkozy no se gustaron al principio, pero terminaron siendo llamados "Merkozy"; así de íntimos llegaron a ser.

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The Greek telling you not to Merkel

37 Year-old is the youngest politician in Greece.

The Syriza party, broke in the second position of the Greek elections map. And it did this in the hands of a 37-year-old girl, Alexis Tsipras, which many fans a hero - through their frontal opposition Sparpolitiken--look at and his opponents see as a threat to the political stability of the country.

Tsipras is the youngest leader of a political party of Greece. His party, Syriza, which has been reached against the Pact between the Greek Government and the European Union as a favorite for the elections on 17 June placed surveys.

Many see a way out of the crisis against the cuts and austerity policies.

For others, it is only a further populist politician.

Until the last elections Greek politics was a thing of the two parties, the Socialist PASOK and the center-right new democracy practically.

The campaign of Syriza for the elections of May 6 - that ended with a fragmented result eventually the country not form Government embarked on new elections - catapulted the group to an unexpected second place.

The Greek politician is now on tour in Europe to seek support for his agenda against the cuts and austerity measures.

But

The differences between hollande and Merkel are patent in Brussels

Angela Merkel and François hollande showed their disagreement on Eurobonds in Brussels.

The change in the Alliance between France and Germany after the arrival of Socialists to Elysium showed by all members of the euro zone countries on Wednesday in the European debut of François hollande by the discrepancy on Eurobonds, bonds, secured.

The new President of France, François hollande, reached the Summit of European Heads of State and Government in Brussels prepared to defend the idea of bundling of debt as the basis of your message for growth. However, Angela Merkel has a step backwards in his attitude, at least publicly.

"The EU treaties prohibit themselves mutually ensures the debts of other countries", the Chancellor said his rejection of the proposal on arrival at the European Council to justify.

Hollande, is for its part, responsible for, to speak again of Eurobonds, which seemed an option ruled out due to the refusal, to generate the Government of conservative party, who insist on economy on the road to economic growth in Berlin as also in most European Heads of State and.

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The Greek telling you not to Merkel

37-Year-old is the youngest politician of Greece.

The Syriza party, left, broke in the second position of the Greek electoral map. And it did so in the hand of a 37-year-old girl, Alexis Tsipras, whom many fans consider a hero - by their frontal opposition austerity policies--and his detractors see as a threat to the political stability of the country.

Tsipras is the youngest leader of a political party of Greece. Polls placed his party, Syriza, which is opposed to the austerity pact reached between the Greek Government and the European Union, as a favorite for the elections on 17 June.

Many see a way out of the crisis against the cuts and austerity policies.

For others, it is only another populist politician.

Until the last elections, Greek politics had been practically a thing of two parties, the Social Democrats of PASOK and the center-right new democracy.

The campaign of Syriza for the elections of May 6 - that ended up with a fragmented result which finally embarked on the country to new elections unable to form Government - catapulted the group to an unexpected second place.

The Greek politician is now on tour in Europe to seek support for his agenda against the cuts and austerity.

But who is Alexis Tsipras?

"It became the symbol of a new generation that intetaba open step in a political scene occupied by elderly people"

Matthew Tsimitakes, former partner of student struggle

Alexis Tsipras was born in Athens three days after the fall of the military junta Greek, in 1974. His early years were more dominated by football than politics, although his first opportunity to test their skills in this field is introduced relatively early.

When a new right-wing government threatened to implement unpopular education reform in 1991, students responded by taking the schools.

Alexis, then 17 years old, led the occupation of your secondary school. He and his companions lived, ate and slept in their classrooms for several months.

Matthew Tsimitakis, who was studying in another Athenian school, recalls an encounter with the young Alexis in the most high moments of the student action.

"Seemed very intelligent, calm, passionate, but also aware (...)" He was well informed about what was happening in the educational system. "He was prepared to negotiate with the Minister, and think it was the only one who could handle the press," he said.

They were rough days for the young Alexis, who soon proved the taste of political success, that the student occupation won concessions from the Government.

Also met women that planned to spend the rest of his life, then the student activist Betty Baziana.

"We do not know what such a good negotiator is and how much can maintain its position in a European Forum, where will be discussing with (the German Chancellor) Angela Merkel, (French President) Francois Holland and the European Central Bank"

Vassilis Monastiriotis, expert in Greek politics of the LSE

To complete high school, took a course to study civil engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, but the policy followed by calling voices.

He soon aprestó to create a coalition of left-wing groups and student environmental organizations. Born Syriza, which participated in the municipal elections of 2006 in Athens and won an impressive third place.

"He toured conjunction in Athens and tried to make direct contact with potential voters." "As in the old days, when people knew the politicians by name", said Elpida Ziouva, a civil servant who worked in the House of the city.

For the past two years has repeatedly condemned the Government's support for the proposed financial recovery plan by the so called "troika" comprising the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

His relaxed style also captures headlines. Tsipras crosses Athens on a motorcycle, rather than the limousines used by other Greek politicians, and prefers the shirts with the neck desabotonadas on the suit and tie.

He obviously enjoys playing with the conventions. The student exactivista Matthew Tsimitakes recalls a party a few years ago to commemorate the end of the rule of the junta.

"Alexis decided to go with a simple suit, no tie, and brought to the party a young black woman, an African immigrant, which was considered scandalous for a conservative Greece", points out.

"Became the symbol of a new generation that intetaba open step in a political scene occupied by elderly," he adds.

But that doesn't mean you don't have critics.

Some suggest that it has not fully explained how combine their opposition to austerity plans with its support for the euro and the continuity of Greece within the European Union.

Miranda Xafa, an economist and prominent member of the Drassi party, prolibre market, argues that his "message is populist".

So some criticize for allegedly having incited to violence.

Also it has accused him of support manifetaciones antiausteridad of a violent nature, which denies.

"It has been persistent in saying that people have the right to revolt is if unjust austerity measures are imposed", said Vassilis Monastiriotis, an expert in Greek politics from the London School of Economics in England.

"Not retracted, while many criticized him for his position, that encouraged violence in the streets of Athens", he adds.

Such criticism may explain why, when it was their turn to form a coalition to govern Greece, failed its mission.

But some suggest that he could win the election, and guarantee a seat at the table of negotiations in Europe.

"We do not know what such a good negotiator is and how much can maintain its position in a European Forum, where will be discussing with (the German Chancellor) Angela Merkel, (French President) Francois Holland and the European Central Bank", adiverte Monastiriotis.

Meanwhile, his followers, as his old friend Yiannis bourgeois, insists that the charismatic Alexis Tsipras is a different kind of leader:

"The Greek people had had enough of inadequate negotiators." You already saw the results: our country is collapsing. "Try something new", he said.

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El griego que le dice no a Merkel

37-Year-old is the youngest politician of Greece.

The Syriza party, left, broke in the second position of the Greek electoral map. And it did so in the hand of a 37-year-old girl, Alexis Tsipras, whom many fans consider a hero - by their frontal opposition austerity policies--and his detractors see as a threat to the political stability of the country.

Tsipras is the youngest leader of a political party of Greece. Polls placed his party, Syriza, which is opposed to the austerity pact reached between the Greek Government and the European Union, as a favorite for the elections on 17 June.

Many see a way out of the crisis against the cuts and austerity policies.

For others, it is only another populist politician.

Until the last elections, Greek politics had been practically a thing of two parties, the Social Democrats of PASOK and the center-right new democracy.

The campaign of Syriza for the elections of May 6 - that ended up with a fragmented result which finally embarked on the country to new elections unable to form Government - catapulted the group to an unexpected second place.

The Greek politician is now on tour in Europe to seek support for his agenda against the cuts and austerity.

But who is Alexis Tsipras?

"It became the symbol of a new generation that intetaba open step in a political scene occupied by elderly people"

Matthew Tsimitakes, former partner of student struggle

Alexis Tsipras was born in Athens three days after the fall of the military junta Greek, in 1974. His early years were more dominated by football than politics, although his first opportunity to test their skills in this field is introduced relatively early.

When a new right-wing government threatened to implement unpopular education reform in 1991, students responded by taking the schools.

Alexis, then 17 years old, led the occupation of your secondary school. He and his companions lived, ate and slept in their classrooms for several months.

Matthew Tsimitakis, who was studying in another Athenian school, recalls an encounter with the young Alexis in the most high moments of the student action.

"Seemed very intelligent, calm, passionate, but also aware (...)" He was well informed about what was happening in the educational system. "He was prepared to negotiate with the Minister, and think it was the only one who could handle the press," he said.

They were rough days for the young Alexis, who soon proved the taste of political success, that the student occupation won concessions from the Government.

Also met women that planned to spend the rest of his life, then the student activist Betty Baziana.

"We do not know what such a good negotiator is and how much can maintain its position in a European Forum, where will be discussing with (the German Chancellor) Angela Merkel, (French President) Francois Holland and the European Central Bank"

Vassilis Monastiriotis, expert in Greek politics of the LSE

To complete high school, took a course to study civil engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, but the policy followed by calling voices.

He soon aprestó to create a coalition of left-wing groups and student environmental organizations. Born Syriza, which participated in the municipal elections of 2006 in Athens and won an impressive third place.

"He toured conjunction in Athens and tried to make direct contact with potential voters." "As in the old days, when people knew the politicians by name", said Elpida Ziouva, a civil servant who worked in the House of the city.

For the past two years has repeatedly condemned the Government's support for the proposed financial recovery plan by the so called "troika" comprising the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

His relaxed style also captures headlines. Tsipras crosses Athens on a motorcycle, rather than the limousines used by other Greek politicians, and prefers the shirts with the neck desabotonadas on the suit and tie.

He obviously enjoys playing with the conventions. The student exactivista Matthew Tsimitakes recalls a party a few years ago to commemorate the end of the rule of the junta.

"Alexis decided to go with a simple suit, no tie, and brought to the party a young black woman, an African immigrant, which was considered scandalous for a conservative Greece", points out.

"Became the symbol of a new generation that intetaba open step in a political scene occupied by elderly," he adds.

But that doesn't mean you don't have critics.

Some suggest that it has not fully explained how combine their opposition to austerity plans with its support for the euro and the continuity of Greece within the European Union.

Miranda Xafa, an economist and prominent member of the Drassi party, prolibre market, argues that his "message is populist".

So some criticize for allegedly having incited to violence.

Also it has accused him of support manifetaciones antiausteridad of a violent nature, which denies.

"It has been persistent in saying that people have the right to revolt is if unjust austerity measures are imposed", said Vassilis Monastiriotis, an expert in Greek politics from the London School of Economics in England.

"Not retracted, while many criticized him for his position, that encouraged violence in the streets of Athens", he adds.

Such criticism may explain why, when it was their turn to form a coalition to govern Greece, failed its mission.

But some suggest that he could win the election, and guarantee a seat at the table of negotiations in Europe.

"We do not know what such a good negotiator is and how much can maintain its position in a European Forum, where will be discussing with (the German Chancellor) Angela Merkel, (French President) Francois Holland and the European Central Bank", adiverte Monastiriotis.

Meanwhile, his followers, as his old friend Yiannis bourgeois, insists that the charismatic Alexis Tsipras is a different kind of leader:

"The Greek people had had enough of inadequate negotiators." You already saw the results: our country is collapsing. "Try something new", he said.

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