Please: Do NOT be fooled by the German claim to “solidarity.”

Maas & Scholz are smart enough not to look Dutch — while doubling down on their rejection of Coronabonds.

A short thread on why & how the Germans are damning the Eurozone to disintegration 1/ https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/newsroom/news/maas-scholz-corona/2330904">https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/newsro...
To begin, the article commits the exact same category error that the EU has been making for over a decade:

It mistakes a crisis of *insolvency* for a crisis of *liquidity*.

Here they are, summarizing their core message: Europe needs more loans! 2/
But why does it not count as & #39;solidarity& #39;?

Because in the Eurozone, more loans to national governments mean more problems.

Specifically, they set up the Frugal Four to demand austerity (“reforms”) to pay them back. The idea that there would be “no Troika” is nonsense… 4/
The point is not that these facilities cannot create liquidity for Eurozone members — nor that this money would go unused.

It is that the ESM creates a *stigma* that raises the costs of servicing debt, bringing back the "doom loop" 6/ https://twitter.com/VMRConstancio/status/1244996409675431937">https://twitter.com/VMRConsta...
Think of it this way: if you are strapped for cash, you can always go to the loan shark….

…but you *don& #39;t* go the loan shark because you know that you might get trapped in debt, unable to climb out, and forced to pay whatever the scary thugs demand 7/
The point of the Coronabond, then, is *not just* to raise money.

By issuing the debt jointly, the Coronabond neutralizes the centrifugal dynamics of debt in the Eurozone, binding all the countries together — rather than forcing each to fend for itself 8/ https://diem25.org/diem25-presents-covid-19-economic-response-plan-and-green-recovery-investment-program/">https://diem25.org/diem25-pr...
Maas and Scholz, by contrast, seem quite happy to let those centrifugal forces run free.

Their folly lies in thinking that the Germany — and the SPD, especially!! — will not get caught in the tornado… 9/
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