Germany’s Bild Calls for Greek Exit, Referendum on Bailouts
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Germany’s best-selling Bild newspaper called for Greece to be ejected from the euro and demanded that Germans hold their own vote on dispatching financial aid, signaling growing exasperation in Europe’s largest economy.
“Take the euro away from the Greeks!” Bild said today on its front page after German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy raised the prospect of a splintered euro area for the first time. The leaders cut off financial aid to Greece until a December referendum they said will determine whether the country receives any more outside funds.