Eurozone titbits

Poor Angela is worried that her friend Nicolas will not win the French presidential election.  Having snubbed his socialist rival Francois Hollande, it is now dawning on her than she needs to mend bridges.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,824873,00.html

The Bundestag has secured greater powers to determine how Germany reacts to demands on the eurozone bailout funds.  This is the consequence of a decision of the German Constitutional Court, a matter on which I have posted before.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,825150,00.html

Two interesting articles:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/9179236/Germanys-reluctant-hegemony-and-misguided-Calvinism.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/charlesmoore/9179963/Jean-Claude-Trichet-We-need-to-go-further.html

Nothing like optimism!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17582689

And then, trouble at t'mill:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9181636/Greek-talks-with-international-law-debt-holders-hit-impasse.html

Finally, don't quite know what to make of this.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9179510/Germany-seeks-scientists-to-test-eurozone-fiscal-policies.html