Marc Brost
Marc Brost (b. 1971) is the assistant editor of the financial section of the German weekly Die Zeit. He co-wrote the bestseller Das große Unvermögen – Warum wir beim Reichwerden immer wieder scheitern (The Huge Misfortune: Why We Always Fail to Make It Rich) and has won several prizes for his financial journalism.
Updated: 19 January 2010
It dictates the agenda of EU summits, defines the rules, makes an entire continent wait, and always ends up imposing its will. With the euro crisis Germany finds itself alone at the head of the Union. But is it up to this new role? 
The fate of the euro is a matter of indifference to the financial markets. Investors are pulling their money out of Rome, Athens, Lisbon and Madrid. And Europe – especially Germany – is doing everything to drive off the financiers it so depends on. 
Germans’ favourite countries for holidaymaking are going broke. And Europeans will have to foot the bill for the worst debtors, explains Die Zeit, lest they become the next dominoes to teeter and topple into financial chaos.