Three weeks after the Brussels diktat, it is time to draw up an interim assessment. Peter Mertens does this in a long article which reads like a thorough update of the Greece chapter of his successful book Hoe Durven Ze? (How Dare They?), published as a scoop at the time by De Wereld Morgen (The World Tomorrow). Mertens summarises the situation in 13 theses, with a sharp critique of the German seizure of power over the Eurozone, which has been being prepared since 2011. Nevertheless, he ends optimistically: “The Greek experience made millions of Europeans think, and that is a positive thing.”