For context:<p>Please take note that general elections (for the "Bundestag") will be held in the end of September 2017. Everything that will be published now and in the next months by the German media may very well be part of a campaign scheme.
The real question is: why should it be otherwise, and why is this newsworthy at all ?<p>European countries all claim to be sovereign countries, but surprisingly, not when it's time to pull the credit card out.