“They don’t let go of the bone.” Antonio Rinaldi comments on the latest statements on Mes from Germany. Finance Minister Dennis Kolberg replied to those who asked if the German government intends to consider other instruments than the Mes: “We have already taken significant measures. Now the question is how to support the credit and for this there is the Mes “. The idea of resorting to the so-called seems therefore dead and buried coronabond, requested by Italy and eight other European Union countries (Spain, France, Belgium, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Slovenia and Luxembourg). The clash with Germany is therefore set to continue: the German government insists on the European stability mechanism because it claims that the eurozone bailout fund has the appropriate tools to deal with the economic consequences of the coronavirus.
