The Local:
Published: 9 May 12 12:45 CET
German politicians have called for Greece to leave the eurozone and return to the Drachma, as the country fails to form a government following Sunday’s election in which mainstream parties were punished for EU austerity measures.
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“We should make Greece the offer to leave the eurozone in an orderly fashion, without leaving the European Union,” said Klaus-Peter Willsch, budgetary expert for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union.
He told Wednesday’s business daily Handelsblatt it was not up to the Germans to tell the Greeks how to live, but the election results indicated that the Greeks were not willing to make the effort required to make their country competitive.
“The dogma that no country can leave the eurozone has already caused too much political damage in Europe,” he said.
They can kick Greece out of the Euro if they want it won’t matter, what we are seeing is the destruction of the Euro and the EU.