Germany is only the highest-profile euro country to oppose anything that threatens its financial sovereignty and to tout the near-sacred devotion of its parliament to budget discipline.

德国是欧洲唯一一个高调反对任何威胁其经济主权行为的国家，并且向外界大肆鼓吹其近乎神圣执行预算纪律的议会。

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The speaker of the European Parliament, Germany's Martin Schulz, has called for the levy to be revised to protect small-scale bank customers.

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As with past eurozone bailouts, the deal must be approved by the lower house of parliament in Germany, the EU's biggest economy.

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Legislation to ease immigration, especially of the highly qualified workers that Germany lacks, has passed the lower house of parliament, although it may yet be blocked by conservatives in the upper house.

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