The press review from around Europe does not make pleasant reading for the German foreign ministry these days. “Look at this stuff, it’s just unacceptable,” laments one diplomat – pointing to a front-page article from Il Giornale, an Italian newspaper owned by Silvio Berlusconi. The piece links the euro crisis to Auschwitz, warns of German arrogance and says that Germany has turned the single currency into a weapon. The Greek papers are not much better. Any taboos about references to the Nazi occupation of Greece have been dropped long ago.
德国外交部读到这段时间欧洲各国媒体的评论，恐怕高兴不起来。一位外交官指着西尔维奥•贝卢斯科尼(Silvio Berlusconi)旗下的《意大利日报》(Il Giornale)头版的一篇文章，哀叹道：“看看这篇东西，简直不可接受。”那篇文章将欧元区危机与奥斯维辛集中营(Auschwitz)联系起来，对德国的傲慢提出警告，还说德国已把单一货币变成了一种武器。希腊报纸也好不到哪儿去。过去不谈纳粹德国占领希腊的禁忌，早就已经打破了。