A subject worthy of Kafka and Molière.

In the land of Moliere, failure, like success, must be theatrical.

In France, one spoke of Turqueries, such as in Moliere s play The Bourgeois Gentilhomme.

To some extent, Mandarin has become the new French, but with a major difference The language of Molière was a cultural tool, not (or not entirely) an instrument of economic success.

The political debt constraints that the eurozone s members had self imposed were never taken seriously after that, because the sinners and the judges were one and the same. A subject worthy of Kafka and Molière.