Aus unerklärlichen Gründen ist die Rede von George Soros, mit der er die Neuordnung Europas skizziert, von der Website des Investors verschwunden. Bis vor kurzem war die Rede noch abrufbar, nun führt der Link ins Nichts. Die DMN dokumentieren daher im folgenden die komplette Rede im Original (Englisch). (..)

„a return to the Deutschemark would likely price Germany out of its export markets – not to mention the political consequences. So Germany is likely to do what is necessary to preserve the euro – but nothing more. That would result in a eurozone dominated by Germany in which the divergence between the creditor and debtor countries would continue to widen and the periphery would turn into permanently depressed areas in need of constant transfer of payments. That would turn the European Union into something very different from what it was when it was a “fantastic object” that fired peoples imagination. It would be a German empire with the periphery as the hinterland.“