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AMERICAN EDITION

September 19, 2012

Dear Friends:

If the German government leadership went by the Jewish calendar they would know that 5772 ended on a very sour note and they’d be glad to have arrived at 5773. They could attend Yom Kippur services, confront their troubles, miseries and shortcomings and feel that they were starting over. However, they go by the Gregorian calendar so they’re stuck for another three plus months.

The last month or six weeks have been dismal. They are caught in a nasty situation brought on by a district court which ruled circumcision to be a criminal act. To compound the problem the State of Berlin ruled that only medical doctors could perform the operation. The reaction that world Jewry had was not unexpected.

While that dispute was underway a rabbi, who was wearing a kippa, was attacked in Berlin by what seemed to be a group of “Middle Eastern looking youths” who also threatened his young daughter. The perpetrators have not as yet been apprehended.

If that wasn’t enough a report came out indicating that neo-Nazi activity in Eastern Germany was stronger than before.

The “cookie topper” was the City of Frankfurt’s awarding the Theodor Adorno Prize to Judith Butler an American Jewish Israel hater. (Click here to read about it). . http://www.thelocal.de/society/20120912-44913.html

Other than the above, everything else went along quietly and peacefully.

Before you get on to the news in detail, let me, once again, wish you all, Jew and non-Jew alike, a great 5773. Good health and happiness!

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Now, on to the news…

IN THIS EDITION

THE AMERICAN ELECTION – What do the Germans think?

THE CIRCUMCISION CIRCUS – It’s a mess. No cutting remarks please!

A RABBI IS ATTACKED - Wearing a kippa proves dangerous in Berlin.

ARE THE NEO-NAZIS STRONGER? HOW STRONG? – Too strong!

IN THE MEANTIME – Anti-Nazi action – but in the West.

HEARTENING – For a change some nice news.

ESM – Not a vitamin supplement but charged with important energy

THE AMERICAN ELECTION

With our election less than two months away, as you might imagine, there is considerable interest in it not only in the U.S. but across the Atlantic as well. With the U.S. being the world power it is, whoever our President turns out to be after Nov. 6th the result will have great impact on the lives of Europeans (in this case Germans) as well as those of us who live on this side of “the pond”. .

With “European style socialism” being one of the boogiemen of our election campaign, I thought it might be instructive for you to hear from a cross section of the German press as to how they feel about the upcoming contest. Granted! Pres. Obama is and has been tremendously popular in Europe since the last election and what follows below was published right after Gov. Romney’s 47% speech hit the media. With that in mind…

Spiegel Online reported, “The center-left Süddeutsche Zeitung writes:

"Sure, other candidates have also put their foot in it while talking in a supposedly intimate setting. Four years ago, Barack Obama, for example, talked disparagingly about white workers who desperately 'cling to guns or religion.' That comment still haunts the Democrats today …."

"But Romney's verbal blunders threaten to leave deeper scars. Even before the latest comments, the once-moderate Massachusetts governor was considered an opportunist. Three-fifths of his countrymen think he is a man who says what he

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thinks people want to hear instead of the truth. Even if Romney were now to apologize, people will not buy his remorse."

"Nevertheless, the election has not yet been decided. Romney still has three opportunities, in the form of the three TV debates with Barack Obama in October. Romney has to hope that many voters will only start paying close attention to him then. But he will be on his own. No touching speech by his wife or million-dollar donation will save him then. He has to help himself. Otherwise, he will soon join the ranks of those who he despises -- the losers."

The conservative Die Welt writes:

"The vote will be counted on the evening of Nov. 6, but it can already be predicted with a degree of reliability that Mitt Romney has lost the US presidential election. The former Massachusetts governor personally hammered the nail in the coffin of his political career when he told donors that 47 percent of Americans would vote for Barack Obama because they see themselves as 'victims' and rely on the state."

"Obama, too, has made his fair share of rhetorical blunders … but by excluding almost half of his compatriots from the American dream, Romney has insulted all those people in question. Romney's 'off-the-cuff speech' is not only quantitatively devastating, it is also qualitatively worse because it provides ammunition for the Democrats' charge that Romney wants to conduct politics for the benefit of the better-off."

The center-right Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung writes:

"It's not very convincing if a presidential candidate who says he wants to revive the 'American dream' excludes almost half of voters right from the outset because they live on state aid anyway and are not willing to take responsibility for themselves. Mitt Romney may be right when he says that those people will not actually vote for him. Nevertheless, he committed a strategic blunder: Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush certainly gave the impression that they also cared about the fate of those whose lives could not be described as a success story."

"It will now be even easier for Obama's people to portray the Republican nominee as a rich man who will conduct politics on behalf of America's rich -- and as a man who commits gaffes and is therefore not capable of holding the country's highest office."

The Financial Times Deutschland writes:

"Of all the blunders that Mitt Romney has made in the current election campaign, this is the worst. We can ignore the fact that the Republican presidential candidate called the Olympic host Great Britain incapable or attacked the incumbent Barack Obama in sharp tones. But writing off one half of his own country's population? Now that's something. The candidate said that it was not his job to concern himself with

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the 47 percent of voters who supposedly rely on government assistance and are therefore Obama supporters. It's amazing how a politician can voluntarily brand himself as a cold-hearted capitalist."

"We Germans can already hardly understand why many Americans would prefer to vote for Romney. But if we now like to believe that he has stumbled, then that is wishful thinking on our part. The policies that we like -- the welfare state, universal health insurance, a foreign policy of rapprochement-- are the policies that Obama stands for. He is Europe's preferred candidate. But the political culture in parts of the US is different. It is more conservative, more religious, more skeptical about government and more focused on the individual. And some statements that would cause a scandal in Germany are only enough to cause a blip in the polls in the US."

The business daily Handelsblatt writes:

"A professional politician would never make such comments publicly -- at most, they would talk about it in a small group -- but never at an event for donors, even if they paid $50,000 for their lunch. Yet this is what Mitt Romney did when he chatted all too openly in Florida a few months ago. Hence, it is less the content of his remarks and more the lack of professionalism that surprises us and gives us pause. After all, who wants an amateur in the White House who can't even keep his campaign under control?"

"This new scandal could spell the end of Romney, who is already notorious as a capitalist and cold-hearted millionaire. Five years after the Lehman bankruptcy, Americans don't need a president who divides society into the rich and those who live off the state. That also applies to Republican voters. After all, many of them don't pay any taxes."

From Gov. Romney’s perspective I guess it’s a good thing the Germans don’t vote in our elections.

THE CIRCUMCISION CIRCUS

Somehow Germany has become embroiled in a (now) international dispute not only with Jews around the world but with itself over the issue of whether circumcision is legal.

As reported in my last edition, a ruling by a Cologne District Court determined that circumcision was a bodily harm and, therefore, illegal. The decision goes against the deeply held religious beliefs of two important religious minority groups, Jews and Muslims, and without a quick about face was destined to turn into a severe dispute with international overtones.

Of course, that is exactly what happened. For instance…

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DW reported, “Israel's president has defended the practice of male circumcision in a letter to his German counterpart. He's the latest high-profile figure to weigh in on a debate over a German court ruling which declared it illegal.

In the letter sent to German President Joachim Gauck on Thursday, President Shimon Peres asked that Germany protect the religious practice.

Circumcision is "a Jewish ritual that has been at the core of Jewish identity for thousands of years and defines the Jewish people, from the time of the first commandment given by God to Abraham," he wrote.

"I am therefore confident, Mr. President, that Germany, in keeping with its values, will remain committed to conducting their Jewish religious traditions in freedom," Peres said in the letter quoted by his office.

The tension even heightened when, as The Daily Beast reported, “The debate came to a head this week when David Goldberg, an Israeli rabbi living in Germany, was charged with inflicting bodily harm for performing ritual circumcisions, which is the surgical removal of male foreskin. Goldberg, who is a mohel, or a Jewish person trained in the practice of circumcision, regularly travels throughout Germany, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, and Italy performing the procedure for Jewish families. He has not been arrested formally, but a Cologne court confirmed to The Daily Beast that he faces charges that could result in jail time and heavy fines. In late June”. The charges were eventually dropped.

Several regions of Switzerland and Austria have also followed suit, making performing circumcisions illegal. The debate is also on the agenda in several Scandinavian countries. In Europe, around one in 10 males is circumcised, with the overwhelming majority due to religious practices. The procedure is most common among those who practice Judaism and Islam; the rest are most likely due to medical necessity. 

The Chancellor refused to be cut out of the action (sorry!). DW reported, “The ensuing controversy prompted Chancellor Angela Merkel to voice her support for the practice, warning her Christian Democratic Union party that Germany risked becoming a "laughing stock" over the issue.

The German parliament responded in July, adopting a nonbinding cross-party resolution to protect religious circumcision. The resolution urges the government to draw up legislation that "ensures that the circumcision of boys carried out to medically professional standards and without undue pain is fundamentally permissible."

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Germany's ethics committee took a further step towards forging a compromise on Thursday, when the 26-member panel said it supported the practice under certain conditions.

"There must be a green light for circumcision but under the conditions of a full explanation to the parents, the agreement of both parents, the treatment of pain and the professional execution of the circumcision," committee chairwoman Christiane Woopen said.

The German government has gotten the message. Most recently, according to The Jerusalem Post, “The German government will ensure that Jews can perform circumcisions, a top aide to German Chancellor Angela Merkel wrote the European Jewish Association on Sunday.

The letter was sent to Menachem Margolin, director of the Rabbinical Center of Europe.

Dr. Rufolf Teuwsen, the chancellor’s representative to Churches and Religious Communities, wrote in the letter that the “German government sees a special obligation to cultivate Jewish culture and religion. The chancellor is grateful that Jewish life has, once again, found a home in Germany.”

For this reason, the German government is working hard to find a solution to the circumcision problem, the letter continued.

Teuwsen stressed that religious freedom is an essential part of Germany’s democratic society.”

It seemed as if the situation would be quieted but the State of Berlin (it is both a city and a federal state) stepped in with a new ruling deciding that circumcision was, indeed, legal, but had to be performed by a physician and not a mohel. The situation, which was quieting down, erupted once again with statements of denunciation and even a public demonstration.

Of course, one cannot blame all Germans for this public relations disaster. When German officials, in this case in Cologne and Berlin, decide that a 3,000 year old Jewish tradition defies German law I believe that feeling about Germany will not be in the “laughing stock” category as expressed by the Chancellor but in one closer to “anti-Semitic.”

I hope that whole matter will eventually be taken care of by the Bundestag early this fall. However, much damage is already done and the bad taste it will have left in the mouths of many will last for a long time to come. If by some chance the Bundestag does not act and return male circumcision to the pre-Cologne situation as a religious matter then the battle will even become more intense.

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A RABBI IS ATTACKED

It wasn’t bad enough that the issue of male circumcision cast Germany in a bad light. To make things worse, a rabbi was viciously attacked on a Berlin street upsetting an already deeply concerned German Jewish community regarding its place in German society.

DW reported, “An anti-Semitic attack has caused consternation in Berlin. Politicians have called for more moral courage. Jews in the German capital have expressed fear, while Jewish organizations worldwide demanded more security.

The attack was completely unexpected for Rabbi Daniel Alter, who was walking down the road with his 6-year-old daughter. Four young men jumped the 53-year-old, beat him viciously and threatened to kill his child. Before attacking Alter, who was wearing a kippa, the men asked him if he was Jewish.

Alter, who later underwent surgery for a cheekbone fracture, described his attackers as Arab-looking. The beating did not take place in one of Berlin's districts with a large number of Arab immigrants - it happened in affluent suburb Friedenau, southwest of the city.

Since the incident on Tuesday (28.08.2012), several members of Berlin's Jewish community have described their negative experiences when appearing recognizably Jewish on the street - in any district of the city. Many have taken to hiding their kippas under a baseball cap. Rabbi Andreas Nachama, a well-respected representative of the city's Jewish community, has said he tries to avoid public transport after being attacked ten years ago on one of Berlin's elevated trains.

In most cases, the attacks are motivated by far-right extremism. But there are many reports of an aggressive anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli sentiment in certain schools and among young Arab people. It has become a highly charged political issue.

Happily, the attack did not go unchallenged by a goodly number of Berlin citizens. DW reported, “Jews, Christians and Muslims took to the streets of Berlin on the weekend, in support of a rabbi who was brutally attacked last week. Rabbi Daniel Alter praised the "wonderful outpouring of moral support."

Alter joined around 1,500 demonstrators on Sunday near the scene of the attack in Berlin's Schöneberg district.

It followed a rally on Saturday, when hundreds took to the streets wearing traditional Jewish skullcaps in a show of solidarity.

Alter was approached by several young men as he walked down the road with his six-year-old daughter last Tuesday. They asked him whether he was Jewish and

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when he said yes, they beat him and threatened to kill his child. The attackers presumably identified the victim as Jewish from the traditional skullcap, the “kippa” he was wearing.

The 53-year-old Alter, who later underwent surgery for a cheekbone fracture, described his attackers as Arab-looking. They have not yet been found.

On Saturday, Berlin's interior minister, Frank Henkel, again condemned what he described as a “cowardly attack.“

The news of the attack triggered a discussion whether Jews in general had to fear for their safety in the German capital.

The president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Dieter Graumann, called Friday on the country's large Muslim community to do more to combat anti-Semitism.

Aiman Mazyek, chairman of the Central Council of Muslims, condemned the attack and professed solidarity and empathy with all Jews in Germany. Other Muslim associations joined in the condemnation of all religious hate and violence.

Protestant Bishop Markus Dröge of Berlin warned Saturday against blanket accusations of violent anti-Semitism being prevalent among Muslims in Germany.

“We should not make the mistake of blaming this on religion,” he said, pointing to a prevalence of violent behavior among socially disadvantaged young men independent of their beliefs.

As of this writing the perpetrators of the attack have not been apprehended. Being that it was a group, as opposed to a single attacker, it should be easier to locate the criminals and bring them to justice.

I join a lot of others who are---waiting!

ARE THE NEO-NAZIS STRONGER? HOW STRONG?

The matter of neo-Nazis in Germany is a complicated and not easily understood situation. There is no question that these extreme right-wing groups are strongest in the eastern states of Germany which until 1989 comprised the Communist nation of East Germany. After the Berlin Wall came down and unification was effected, the eastern states were the poorest with the highest rate of unemployment. That remains the case today.

While neo-Nazi activity remains highest there, it does not seem, in any significant way, to have bled over into the western states of the Federal Republic. While the legal neo-Nazi party (NPD) has succeeded in winning seats in State parliaments,

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they have never been able to gain even one in the national Bundestag. Measure that against other European countries and you do not get a feeling that neo-Nazism is gaining a national foothold. Since I am a great believer in “Never say never”, that is not say that, given the right sort of circumstances, what is happening in the East could not jump the boundaries and infect the West.

In late August Spiegel On-Line ran a story entitled, “In Eastern Germany, the Neo-Nazis Are Winning”. It noted, “Twenty years ago, an asylum-seekers hostel in Rostock was set ablaze by rioting neo-Nazis as thousands of ordinary people watched and cheered. Today, much of eastern Germany remains a no-go area for foreigners, say commentators. Authorities have failed to tackle the problem and society remains indifferent.

Germany is marking the 20th anniversary this week of a racist riot against immigrants and asylum-seekers in the eastern port city of Rostock. Between Aug. 22 and Aug. 26, 1992, hundreds of right-wing extremists hurled stones and firebombs at a high-rise apartment block where asylum-seekers, most of them Sinti and Roma from Romania, and Vietnamese workers were being housed.

Several thousand people stood by and applauded the attackers. At one point police and fire department officials retreated from the scene, abandoning the burning building and the people trapped inside. It was a miracle that no one was killed in the riots which first focused national and international attention on the growth of neo-Nazis and xenophobia in the former communist east.

Fast forward 20 years, and Germany still has a far-right problem. Media commentators say the police and government authorities have not done enough to combat right-wing extremism, which has festered especially in depopulated rural regions of the east where neo-Nazis sit on town councils, organize local sports festivals and youth activities and are even trying to staff kindergartens.

Many believe that unchecked hatred in some eastern German states of the sort seen in Rostock created an atmosphere that allowed the terrorism of the National Socialist Underground, the neo-Nazi cell uncovered by chance last November that murdered and bombed immigrants, to happen. But yet again, critics lament, there's no big push in German society to root out the problem.

It is not arguable that neo-Nazi activity is a problem in the East. However, as I reported in the last edition, Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich kicked out some of the high ranking security people and brought in some new faces. That should bring some positive results.

To me the most troubling part of the matter is the reported seeming indifference on the part of the populace. Of course, there are counter demonstrations and anti-Nazi statements from state and local officials. However, if a vast segment (majority?) of the population doesn’t care and refuses to do anything about it that is a major

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problem. It will require stronger moves by the national government and further discussion about the outlawing of the NPD Party.

If you’re interested in reading the rest of the Spiegel On-Line article click here.http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/press-review-on-the-german-far-right-20-years-after-the-rostock-riots-a-851193.html

BTW, a welcome voice on the subject has come from German President Joachim Gauck. An Easterner himself, according to DW “Gauck told the Leipziger Volkszeitung newspaper on Monday that any fresh application by federal authorities to Germany's Constitutional Court to ban the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) must be "very thoroughly" prepared.

In 2003, the court in Karlsruhe rejected a previous prohibition application on the grounds that evidence had been tainted by the authorities' use of informants. Germany's constitution sets high hurdles for the banning of political parties.”

Calls for a NPD prohibition have surged since the detection last year of a neo-Nazi gang that had murdered nine immigrants, mostly of Turkish origin, and a policewoman between 2000 and 2007.

Who knows? Maybe it will happen.

IN THE MEANTIME…

While most of the neo-Nazi activity is in the east, the former East Germany, there was a major crackdown in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

In late August The New York Times reported, “More than 900 police officers raided homes and clubhouses of suspected neo-Nazis in a crackdown in a western German state on Thursday, seizing far-right propaganda material, computer hard drives and a wide variety of weapons, the region's top security official said.

The raids to collect evidence came after North Rhine-Westphalia state interior minister Ralf Jaeger banned three local neo-Nazi groups.

"These groups are anti-foreigner, they are racist and they are anti-Semitic," Jaeger said at a news conference.

The crackdown in North Rhine-Westphalia comes amid a greater focus nationally on the far right in Germany. That was sparked by the revelation last year that a small group of neo-Nazis apparently managed to kill nine minorities and a police officer over a seven-year period while remaining off the radar of the country's intelligence services.

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Authorities raided a total of 146 buildings in 32 North Rhine-Westphalia cities and towns, Jaeger said.

At the headquarters of one of the groups in Dortmund, officials found 1,000 election posters for the National Democratic Party, which federal officials are currently trying to decide whether to ban, Jaeger said.

"This shows the close interlacing between this right-extremist party and the neo-Nazi scene in North Rhine-Westphalia," he said.

The raids also netted a variety of weapons, including firearms — though it is still being determined whether they were functional — switchblade knives, baseball bats and brass knuckles.

The interior ministry said there had been no arrests, though criminal prosecutions of some of the members of the neo-Nazi groups had helped form the basis for the ban, and some were already in prison.

I don’t think there is any question about the fact that neo-Nazi activity is terribly embarrassing to Germany’s political leadership, In addition, and more important, I believe they see it as dangerous – dangerous enough to start doing something about it. The level of concern has certainly increased since the revelation that there was a gang of neo-Nazi killers that operated under the security radar for 10 years. Public demonstrations are one thing; the fact that weapons are now being found is quite something else. I look forward to increased police activity. We’ll have to wait and see if that happens. North Rhine-Westphalia is encouraging.

HEARTENING

I recently came across three different pieces in three different periodicals dealing with three different subjects that were, indeed, heartening.

First, J-Net News reported, “Some 50 decedents of Nazi SS and Wehrmacht officers will be taking part in 'reconciliation march' with Holocaust survivors through Poland's extermination camps

Their relatives massacred the Jews, and now they are marching together with Holocaust survivors to commemorate the tragedy. Over 50 members of the German delegation are descendants of members of Wehrmacht, police, or SS, who were directly involved in the annihilation of Europe's Jews. They will join together with the survivors in a 'reconciliation march' that will make stops at Poland's extermination camps.

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The 420 participants met Monday at the Treblinka, Kielce, Warsaw, Sobibor, Chelmno, Majdanek and Belzec. A memorial ceremony will be held at each of the sites.

Second, Spiegel On-Line reported, “Germany's eastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has a longstanding reputation as a hotbed of xenophobic activity. Recently, a number of projects have sought to burnish the region's tarnished reputation. The latest is a golf tournament that raised thousands of euros to be given to groups that combat extremism in youth.

The Golf and Country Club Fleesensee in Germany's famous lake country offers an idyllic stretch of lush green fairways and glistening ponds. At first glance, it doesn't seem like an obvious frontline in the battle against right-wing extremism.

On Saturday, though, the site hosted 70 golfers from across Germany and Switzerland, who had gathered for the country's first "Golf gegen Rechts," or Golf against the Far-Right, tournament to remember past extremism and stop future acts in the northeastern German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Third, though it happened in Sweden and not Germany, I thought I should include it. JTA reported, “Several hundred kipah-wearing Jews and non-Jews marched in Sweden as a sign of solidarity with Malmo’s Jews.

Some 400 marchers gathered Saturday outside the synagogue in Malmo and walked to Mollevangs Square, a part of the city with many Muslim immigrants from the Middle East.

“The idea is to show ourselves and others that we refuse to be afraid or hide our Jewish affiliation,” Fredrik Sieradzki, director of communications for the Jewish community of Malmo, told JTA before the march. 

. “The statement is that Jews should be free to walk in Malmo without fear, and that is sadly not the case right now,” Lena Posner-Korosi, president of the Council of Swedish Jewish Communities, told JTA. “Many Jews are frightened to show their affiliation. We in Stockholm are having a kipah march in solidarity with the Malmo community, but for our own sake as well. It’s a signal which says, 'We are here, we don’t harm you, so don’t harm us.’ ”

Anti-Semitism in Malmo first drew international attention in 2009, when riots broke out due to the presence of Israeli tennis players in the city, which was hosting the Davis Cup.

If you felt depressed by the first two articles about the neo-Nazis, this one should raise your spirits somewhat. There are good people and we should pay as much attention to them as to those on the other side.

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ESM

What is ESM? Well, it’s not some vitamin supplement or a new self-improvement procedure. However, in the long run it might be more important to your well being, especially your financial health than either of the other choices.

ESM stands for European Stability Mechanism which improves the standing of the Euro and the Eurozone. After some question as to whether the German High Court (like our Supreme Court) might rule it unconstitutional, they finally said it was.

Spiegel Online reported, “Germany and Europe can both breathe a sigh of relief on Wednesday: The Federal Constitutional Court has rejected a petition to stop the ratification of the permanent euro rescue fund, the European Stability Mechanism. The decision clears the way for the ESM to go into effect.

In a historically significant signal for the euro rescue, the German Federal Constitutional Court on Wednesday ruled there are no grounds to stop the country from ratifying the European Stability Mechanism, the permanent euro bailout fund, and the fiscal pact aimed at bringing economic governance to countries in the euro zone. The decision bolstered stock markets in Europe and around the world and also strengthened the euro. However, the justices at the Karslruhe-based court also expressed some reservations.

The court ordered that ratification can only be completed if it is ensured under international law that Germany's current maximum liability of €190 billion ($245 billion) can only be increased with the approval of the German representative in the ESM board, court President Andreas Vosskuhle said. "(No) provision of this treaty may be interpreted in a way that establishes higher payment obligations for the Federal Republic of Germany without the agreement of the German representative," the court states.

This also means that Germany's federal parliament, the Bundestag, must play the leading role in important decisions.

The ruling on ESM is a big victory for Chancellor Merkel. Though there are many critical voices on the subject even in her own party, her desire to save the Euro is winning out. Needless to say, much of the bailout money is coming from Germany and that certainly makes many of the taxpayers very unhappy.

"This is a good day for Germany, a good day for Europe," she said during a special session of the German parliament. "We haven't yet overcome the crisis, but we have achieved our first steps." She said Germany had sent a "strong message to Europe and beyond." The court has cleared the way for the ESM and the fiscal pact while at the same time strengthening the rights of parliament. This, she said, would provide certainty for everyone -- not only members of the Bundestag but also taxpayers.

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Therefore, for the moment the Euro remains and Germany keeps paying. How long can that go on? Stay tuned!

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