Europe’s economic woes? It’s not a result of the welfare state, too much debt (or both.) No, it’s America’s fault. That’s the word from Laurence Parisot, the head of a very influential French organization, MEDEF, whose membership includes French captains of industry and CEOs.
The U.S. has economic troubles, she said. “The Americans then wanted to pass the buck to Europe. We saw a kind of psychological war and an attempt to destabilize the euro zone….The front pages of the American media announced the death of such and such a bank and even the end of the eurozone. We went from attacks on Spain to attacks on Italy, then on France and as far as rumours that Germany would be downgraded last week!”
She said that ultimately Europe was under attack “not because it is weak but because it is strong.” Of course.
From France’s The Local.