Anyone else want to chime in? I'm increasingly convinced that Schauble and Merkel are deliberately engineering this entire crisis, timed to peak between the end of 2012 and mid-2013, in order to give them maximal leverage over a new EU treaty for fiscal and political union. No one else has a clue what is going on in Berlin.
I don't buy into this conspiracy theory of yours that they created/engineered this crisis, but that they are taking advantage of it to further the integration of the European Union I do not doubt.