German Nobel Laureate Guenter Grass Writes Poem about Greece –
“Europe’s Shame”  Guenter Grass is a German Nobel Literature
Prize winner who wrote, two months ago, a proza poem commenting
on Israel’s policy regarding Iran. Back then, world society
raised eyebrows and disapproved of his poem, due to “poetic
faults,” such as not excellent rhyme etc. This time, he
expresses his opinion in public about Greece with his poem
‘Europe’s Shame’, published on Süddeutsche Zeitung.  In the
poem, he supports Greece, saying that Europeans turned the
country into “Greece without any rights.” He complains about
European policy over the financial situation in Greece, which is
“close to chaos because it does not obey the markets.”  As a
debtor, “Greece is notorious, a country doomed in poverty,” and
Europe “tightens more and more the strap around its neck.” Grass
blames European governors that stifle “every breath of life”
that Greece takes with the austerity measures they impose on the
country.  He also compares the current s