John Müller
John Müller is a Chilean journalist. He worked for the newspaper Diario16 in the 1980s and has been part of El Mundo since its founding, where he is now its deputy director. He regularly writes articles in the economy section. He has also worked for the magazine Hoy Chile (Chile Today), and Venezuela's El Universal.
Updated: 30 June 2011
The aid plan launched by the Eurogroup in return for a tax levied on Cyprian bank deposits has provoked violent reactions. Germany is often accused of wanting to punish a struggling country. However, it’s not the Chancellor who is to blame for the mistakes of the island, writes an economist. 
The game has gone on for nearly two years: Athens pretends to comply with the demands of its creditors and partners, and they pretend to believe in Greece’s commitments. As the spectre of default comes nearer, however, the Greek bluff cannot go on much longer, writes an El Mundo editorialist. 
Like the shadows described by the Athenian philosopher, the solutions adopted to prevent the Greek debt crisis from taking down the euro with it are Greek paradoxes that Europeans do not wish to see. The deputy director of El Mundo weighs in.