Bailouts Test Limits of Taxpayer Tolerance: Karl Heinz Daeke

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These are testing times for European taxpayers, especially German ones.

The European stabilization package, worth as much as 750 billion euros, already meant a huge burden on ordinary people when it was set up in May 2010. But at that time we were still told that such a protective shield would suffice to fend off speculators around the world.