Mr Blair said that the only thing that would save the single currency now was to have a "grand plan" where Germany was ready to commit its economy fully - "treating the debts of one as the debts of all".
Millions had seen their life savings evaporate, and were ready later to believe that Germany had been stabbed in the back by a conspiracy of Jews, international financiers and local appeasers.
Chancellor Merkel says that Germany is ready to strengthen its banks if that is necessary.
To put it yet another way, Germany is not ready - and may never be ready - to provide implicit insurance and underwriting for loans and investments made by Spanish banks, or Italian banks or French banks.
The 2, 600 troops, part of the Allied Command Europe Rapid Reaction Force (AARC) headquartered in Rheindahlen, Germany, could be ready to take up position as early as Sunday.
The German newspaper Bild am Sonntag has quoted officials from Russia's Culture Ministry as saying that they were ready to loan Priam's Treasure to Germany for exhibition, but only on the condition that it is returned.
Germany has also said it is ready and willing to "dip into its own emergency oil reserves" to release some 2 million barrels a day for 30 days.
The nature of mainstream political and media discourse in Germany right now is not redolent of a nation ready to make that degree of financial commitment in the interests of eurozone cohesion.
Germany has long insisted that the EU is not ready institutionally to mutualise debt - a move that experts say would require EU treaty change.
U.S. officials say a letter sent tothe European Union's foreign-policy chief represents one of the least equivocal offers to negotiate Iran has ever made a declaration that it is ready to talk with the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany, the group the outside world has designated to handle talks.
The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has considered the possibility of Germany providing bilateral help to Greece, though she insists she is not yet ready to talk about aid with Mr Papandreou.
How would Airbus get the huge ready-built sections of the A380 to its headquarters in Toulouse, France from factories in Britain and Germany?
Mrs Merkel is ready to talk about growth, but not if it means reopening the fiscal compact and not if it will cost Germany many more billions.
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