Angela Merkel: Germany's 'Frau Nein'
Angela Merkel: Germany's 'Frau Nein' By Stephen Evans BBC News, Berlin When Margaret Thatcher wanted to show how she certainly wouldn't be caving in to any outside pressure, she just stood in front of a battery of television cameras, looked them straight in the lens and said: "The lady is not for turning". Chancellor Merkel has a different style but her intransigence seems comparable. She's "Madame Non" in French papers. "The Iron Chancellor" grabs the headline writers. And "Frau Nein" is a favourite, too. “The German constitution makes strict rules about parliament determining budgets - not Brussels” End Quote And as she heads to yet another summit billed as the one to save the euro, she's made it as plain as the Brandenburg Gate that there will be no open-ended collective commitment to pay the debts of individual countries in the eurozone. ...