Other leaders described efforts that Europe was making -- and I don't want to read out what they talked about -- all committed to working together.

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"For everyone who knows Dmitrichenko, the very idea that he could have thought of and ordered this crime - committed in such a brutal manner - is absurd, " read their open letter.

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That article is still worth a read but I got one thing wrong: the Germans - indeed the policy elite that surrounds them, committed to sound money, balanced books etc - have taken control of and crashed southern Europe but made no moves towards a fiscal union.

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