Sir, – Martin Winterkorn, the former head of Volkswagen, gets to resign and walk away without any liability and retains his pension, bonuses and shares. I’m sure that’s a level of accountability most Greek business leaders would be happy to live with.
Perhaps the revelation that the same unethical corporate business culture that allowed for the likes of Enron, Lehman Brothers, Barclays and the euro zone banking crisis has free rein at the heart of the German military-industrial complex will temper some of Germany’s judgmental attitude toward other euro zone member states.
It has been argued that love and hate are the strongest human emotions but time and time again we are more often presented with evidence that it is in fact denial, be it denial that a certain culture exists in a country or business to denial about the scale of one’s own personal responsibility, that is by far the strongest emotion. – Yours, etc,
DESMOND FitzGERALD,
Canary Wharf, London.