As this time there is no room to claim that the cause of the crisis is to be found in southern irresponsibility, some, like German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz or Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin, felt that just no explanation was needed: ‘we ain’t ready for that’, that is, ‘no way’. But, it was another Dutch minister of Finance, Wopke Hoekstra, to drop the moral card once again: Southerners have not made the reforms that were necessary during the previous crisis, so they have not saved money for this moment, he claimed – except, let us remind, they did all, if not more, the reforms that had been requested during the last round of austerity, and, by the way, much of the cash that they should had been collected through taxes had been rerouting to the Dutch tax heaven.
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