The past weighs heavy each time that tensions re-emerge between Europeans. As during the Greek crisis, the nazi past of Germany resurfaced in the debate. In 2015, the day after his election, Alexis Tsipras, the Greek Prime minister, had put the erasure of the debt of the German war effort to demand that Berlin, the repayment of around € 150 billion, or about half of the Greek debt at the time…

This time, it is downright an editorial in the Spiegel that makes use of the bad conscience of German do to put pressure on Angela Merkel, so that it c…