经济学人:欧元危机也有好处

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Summary: The euro crisis has given the German chancellor a political lift.
总结：欧元危机反倒提升了德国总理的政治地位。
HINTS:
Angela Merkel
Republican
Davos powerfest
Brussels
IMF
Christine Lagarde
Berlin
Bundestag
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Summits are good for Angela Merkel. Germans like to watch the chancellor hobnob with the world's most powerful men. She stands out, for braininess and for bringing a flash of colour to the dark-suited scrums. But she undoubtedly belongs. Thanks to the euro crisis, summits happen almost as often as Republican presidential debates, giving Mrs Merkel frequent opportunities to press Germany's case, in her quietly insistent way. She was the opening speaker at the Davos powerfest on January 25th. On January 30th she will meet fellow European leaders in Brussels for yet another summit on the euro.
Mrs Merkel does not always prevail and often fails to persuade. The IMF's head, Christine Lagarde, warned in Berlin on January 23rd that the world faces a "1930s moment". German obduracy on the euro might be a cause, she implied. But the crisis is no longer weakening Mrs Merkel at home. Talk of mutiny within her coalition has subsided since the Bundestag voted overwhelmingly in favour of bail-outs for peripheral euro zone countries late last year.召开峰会对安吉拉·默克尔有利。德国人喜欢看这位总理与世界上最有权有势的人亲切交谈。她挺身而出，散发智慧的魅力，并带给清一色黑西装的混乱人群一抹与众不同的色彩。但是无疑，她也是其中的一份子。多亏了欧洲危机，峰会召开的频率几乎快赶上共和党党魁竞选辩论赛了，这给了默克尔很多机会，让她以一贯平静但又坚持的方式强调德国的情况。1月25日，她担任达沃斯年会的开幕式发言人。1月30日，她将在布鲁塞尔与其他欧洲领导人参加另一个商讨欧元问题的峰会。
但是默克尔并不是一直处于优势，很多次她都没能说服成功。世界货币基金组织总裁克里斯蒂娜·拉加德于1月23日在柏林发出警告说世界正在面临“二十世纪三十年代的时刻”。她暗指德国在欧元问题上的固执己见可能是引发危机的原因。但是这场危机再也不会威胁默克尔在德国的地位。自去年年底联邦议院以压倒性票数通过救援欧元区周边国家之后，说默克尔联盟开始动摇的言论就开始减少。