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    There would be no point in promising more and more money without tackling the causes of the crisis,” said Merkel. “Amid all the billions in financial assistance and rescue packages, we Germans also need to watch that we don’t run out of steam. After all, our capacities aren’t infinite, and overstretching ourselves wouldn’t help us or the EU as a whole. Angela Merkel casts doubt on saving Greece from financial meltdown - Ian Traynor’s interview starts our series on the state of Europe

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    We’d like to point out that surprisingly, the police here in Frankfurt have been nice to us. We exercised our democratic right to get together and protest - all we did is called the Frankfurt municipality and there is a guy there whose job it is to register all protests. The police then gave it the green light. The police have constantly maintained close contact with us to say we shouldn’t do anything “surprising” - but they have said that they are “with us”.

    In Berlin the situation was almost the opposite. The people couldn’t camp because the police drove them out using violence. The demonstration was registered with the authorities there but they didn’t get the permission to camp outside the Reichstag because it’s within a special no-protest zone called the “Bannmeile”. They are still gathering there every day but they can’t camp.

    Protesters from Occupy Wall street, Occupy Frankfurt and Occupy London discuss and debate the movement. You can join in here.

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