{"id":184747,"date":"2012-01-30T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/30\/europe-is-fed\/"},"modified":"2012-01-30T19:55:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T00:55:00","slug":"europe-is-fed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/30\/europe-is-fed\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe is F%$#ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/01\/30\/us-eu-summit-idUSTRE80S0SR20120130\">Germans have been allowed to force their self delusions on the rest of Europe<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Chancellor Angela Merkel cemented her political ascendancy in Europe on Monday when 25 out of 27 EU states agreed to a German-inspired pact for stricter budget discipline, even as they struggled to rekindle growth from the ashes of austerity.<\/p>\n<p>Only Britain and the Czech Republic refused to sign a fiscal compact in March that will impose quasi-automatic sanctions on countries that breach European Union budget deficit limits and will enshrine balanced budget rules in national law.<\/p>\n<p>The accord was eagerly greeted by the European Central Bank which has long pressed euro zone governments to put their houses in order.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The solution to problems caused austerity and overly aggressive efforts at European integration will be <b>more<\/b> austerity and overly aggressive efforts at European integration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because the Germans have been allowed to force their self delusions on the rest of Europe: Chancellor Angela Merkel cemented her political ascendancy in Europe on Monday when 25 out of 27 EU states agreed to a German-inspired pact for stricter budget discipline, even as they struggled to rekindle growth from the ashes of austerity. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,984,1004,964,1009,985,983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-europe","category-finance","category-foreign-relations","category-government","category-regulation","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}