In a commentary, Bild's Hugo Mueller-Vogg reached for a medical metaphor to restate the paper's long-standing opposition to euro zone bailouts it says German taxpayers cannot afford.

"The team of European doctors around the patient's bed justify the continually rising costs of the treatment with the hope that at some point the expensive medicines will prove effective," wrote Mueller-Vogg.

None of the doctors will admit that the costs of saving Greece will be great, he said.

Quelle: “Chicago Tribune” vom 29.11.2012