Angela we have heard on high

As Italy and Greece implode, and the pressure increases for Germany to do something, anything, Angela Merkel has made a call for ‘structural changes’ in the EU. In other words, in what’s bound to get eurosceptics’ hackles up, she’s pressing for Treaty change and an even more tightly-knit union.

At a conference known as Falling Walls, which commemorates the end of the Berlin Wall, she said:

‘This is the time for a breakthrough to a new Europe. This is a time for a change toward more sustainability. That is the problem we have to contend with in Europe. And that means it is about more than declarations of intent but rather implementing structural changes. The debt crisis is not just something unpleasant, it is a turning point, an opportunity to create something new.’