The New York Times this evening—
Europe Agrees on Plan to Inject New Capital Into Banks
By STEVEN ERLANGER and RACHEL DONADIO
Published: October 26, 2011
…“The world is looking at Germany, whether we are strong enough
to accept responsibility for the biggest crisis since World War II,”
Mrs. Merkel said in an address to the Parliament in Berlin….
The same quotation in the original German—
«Die Welt schaut auf Deutschland und Europa. Sie schaut darauf,
ob wir bereit und fähig sind, in der Stunde der schwersten Krise Europas
seit dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs, Verantwortung zu übernehmen.»
("The world is looking at Germany and Europe— looking at
whether we are ready and able, in the hour of the
deepest crisis of Europe since the end of World War II,
to accept responsibility." (I.e. , for resolving the crisis))