The economic crisis is Europe has so far knocked off two leaders — Papandreou and Berlusconi. How many will leave office before it’s finished? Even France’s Sarkozy isn’t safe. German Chancellor Angela Merkel seems the most firmly in the saddle. But then Germany has suffered the smallest and most insignificant crisis.
Of course the last time Germany had a big economic and political crisis in the 1920’s and early30’s, Adolf Hitler took over.