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the idea that the cu rrent crisis can only be resolved from the drive and demanded the need for "a co mpassionate heart "with European neighbors was as if boomed the voice of conscie nce of Germany. ex-Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, 92aos, who had to be put in the pill ory Angela Merkel's policy and denounced the 'diktat' of Berlin in Europe.The ve teran agent who was not involved in a Congress of the Social Democratic Party (S PD) since 1988, he did last Sunday from his wheelchair with a one-hour speech en titled "Germany, and with, Europe." His message was loud and clear : a "bully Ge rman nationalist spirit" is destroying the European Union and solidarity coocin ra ised its founders. His words, however, found no echo in the Brussels summit on F riday in the German demands that laid the foundations for a multi-speed Europe w ith advanced students (euro countries that accept a rigid fiscal straitjacket), 'the squad are in the euro torpes'no but try to catch the new Treaty) and expell ed from the class (with the United attached to the head) Schmidt warned against attempts to shape a German Europe will cause the "immediate reaction" of other n ations and recalled the historical sense of the EU primal: to avoid attracting t he continent warmongering and tie to Germany feared. European history, he said, "surely remain for many generations even a latent distrust of the Germans" due t he many occasions "in which we made others suffer under our central depoder posi tion." According to the Social Democratic politician "who today do not understan d the original reason, you can not resolve the current crisis in Europe." The fo rmer foreign minister defended the idea that the current crisis can only be reso lved from the drive and demanded the need for "a heart of compassion to our neig hbors and partners and especially with Greece." In this regard, he recalled how "the post-war German development would not have been possible without the help o f the victorious powers, without the integration into Europe and NATO, without t he help of nuestrosvecinos and without the end of communist dictatorships." For if their rejection is little doubt the policy of Merkel, Schmidt made a concrete alusindirecta and the Government of Merkel: "Who now suggests that in future Germ an-speaking Europe, when a foreign minister stated that the visits Kabul or Trip oli ... are more important than political contact with Lisbon and Madrid and War saw, or as another says to avoid a union of transfers, this is nothing more than bully German nationalist spirit. " In these times when issues only serves losqu e Economists and technocrats seem to have carte blanche, the old man recalled th e most important political philosopher living German, Jrgen Habermas, and signed h is warning that "for the first time since the founding of EU, democracy is in da nger. " Five days later gave the reason loshechos and the Brussels summit saw th e main European institutions with the Parliament at the head were confined by th e short cut of a decision-making between governments. The Court ConstitucionalMe rkel and more specifically the German Constitutional Court suidea succeeded in i mposing economic governance, control and budget discipline and monetary stabilit y with penalties for violators. The growth would come in addition. Schmidt belie ves on the contrary, as the laureate Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman, that if E urope wants to emerge from the crisis must act together, but not politic and adjustments as deflation but with the funding of growth projects, which SINL A is not possible for any State sanitize their public accounts and debt free del lastre. The chancellor was very satisfied with the results of the summit to impo se their views with minimal concessions. However, the peripheral countries, incl uding Spain, are still clearly see the horizon, even if they apply the settings and horse medicinade savings. The markets will again be on Monday the juecesde a greed in Brussels and will agree to those, like Schmidt, consider holding them h ostage to policy makers, incapable of joint action and solidarity. One can only hope that the epitaph is not met a vignette of The Broken, "the cry of 'every ma n for himself' drowned all."