德国对于自己被要求支持不愿调整的国家感到十分不安，这些国家和德国不同，德国用多年的痛苦换来了竞争力：低工资有所增长以吸收前东德的工作人口；劳动力和退休金也得到了深刻的改革。
Germans are upset at being asked to support countries that do not seem to want to adjust – unlike Germany, which is competitive because it endured years of pain: low wage increases to absorb the former East Germany’s workers and deep labor-market and pension reforms.