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Greece and Germany, such bad friends?

Are Germany and Greece bad friends as they seem to be? Yesterday the Greek Prime-minister Tsipras visited Angela Merkel in Berlin to discuss the relationship between Greece and Germany which has not been that stable the last few weeks.
Remarkable, that’s the word to describe the situation in Europe at the moment. Greece demands money from Germany because of Nazi atrocities. Yesterday he raised the war claims at a press conference with Angela Merkel, according to the Guardian. What is Greece trying to do? They know that they will never get money “back” from crimes that were committed under the Nazi-regime. This could just be a way to cause uproar and unrest in Europe, or they want less pressure from Germany and other countries who have demands that Greece has to change it’s economic plans.
Merkel already said that Germany isn’t going to pay for crimes done by the Nazi-regime. She said: “In the view of the German government, the issue of reparations is politically and legally closed”.


Furthermore, Merkel talked positively about Greece: “We want Greece to be strong economically, we want Greece to grow and above all we want Greece to to overcome its high unemployment”. And prime-minister Tsipras said that it was better to talk with each other than to talk about each other.
Greece and Germany seem to be heading the right way, they just need to make a compromise about the direction in which the Greek economy is heading. Once that is settled everything will go much better than at the moment.

Sources:

- http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/mar/23/tsipras-raises-nazi-war-reparations-claim-at-berlin-press-conference-with-merkel
- http://www.bbc.com/news/business-32012066
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