Merkel’s Path: Using Brinkmanship for the Debt Crisis

BERLIN — When the ratings agency Standard & Poor’s warned this week that it might lower the credit ratings of 15 euro zone countries, including Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel seemed unmoved. “What a rating agency does is the responsibility of the rating agency,” she told reporters in ...

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