The press review from around Europe does not make pleasant reading for the German foreign ministry these days. “Look at this stuff, it’s just unacceptable,” laments one diplomat – pointing to a front-page article from Il Giornale, an Italian newspaper owned by Silvio Berlusconi. The piece links the euro crisis to Auschwitz, warns of German arrogance and says that Germany has turned the single currency into a weapon. The Greek papers are not much better. Any taboos about references to the Nazi occupation of Greece have been dropped long ago.
德國外交部讀到這段時間歐洲各國媒體的評論，恐怕高興不起來。一位外交官指著西爾維奧•貝魯斯柯尼(Silvio Berlusconi)旗下的《義大利日報》(Il Giornale)頭版的一篇文章，哀嘆道：「看看這篇東西，簡直不可接受。」那篇文章將歐元區危機與奧斯維辛集中營(Auschwitz)聯繫起來，對德國的傲慢提出警告，還說德國已把單一貨幣變成了一種武器。希臘報紙也好不到哪兒去。過去不談納粹德國佔領希臘的禁忌，早就已經打破了。