Elzbieta Bienkowska, appointed regional-development minister by the centrist government of Donald Tusk last November, agrees that her country's record has been poor.

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But all three of those parties still go into the election committed to a renegotiation of the austerity terms, so for such a last-ditch centrist government to cohere, Germany has to want Greece to stay in the Euro.

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Once dedicated to supporting far right candidates and making mischief for the purpose of grinding the wheels of centrist government to a halt by distracting the administration with scandal after scandal, they now have taken on a far more virulent form.

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