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Mrs Merkel’s Athens visit, her fall from grace and Greece’s demand for war reparations – on BBC Radio 4

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[embedded content] Over the past two days, Mrs Merkel was in Athens on a victory lap to celebrate her successful subjugation of the Syriza government and the subsequent extension of the Greeks’ debt bondage. Nevertheless, even this subservient Greek government managed to upset her victory lap by mentioning the… war and the reparations the Greeks will continue to demand for the gigantic loss of life and infrastructure under the Nazi occupation. Click above to hear my interview on this subject with BBC Radio 4. BACKGROUND TO MRS MERKEL’s VISIT Mrs Merkel was visiting Athens over the past two days. In her mind, she would have liked to think of her visit as a victory lap. In the mind of most

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