![Economist Sinn rattles Merkel laboring to save euro Economist Sinn rattles Merkel laboring to save euro](https://www.cer.eu/sites/default/files/styles/spotlight/public/images/spotlight/in_the_press/2012/bundestag_sun_sl-1347003854.jpg?itok=xwt4_tHK)
Economist Sinn rattles Merkel laboring to save euro
"Economists like Hans-Werner Sinn have contributed to a climate in which the German government has felt constrained in what it can agree at a eurozone level," says Simon Tilford, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform in London.
Sinn’s assertion that Germany is being taken for a ride by its euro-area neighbors has political resonance, Tilford says. It’s one reason, he says, that Merkel has refused to endorse the issuance of bonds backed by all of the euro-area countries and continues to demand a euro-zone-wide fiscal pact to bind the hands of future governments.