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Gunter Grass stands by poem about Greece and Europe
Germany’s Nobel literature laureate Gunter Grass has confirmed he
wrote a poem which attacked Europe for its treatment of Greece. The
poem, called “Europe’s Disgrace,” was published in the Sueddeutsche
Zeitung newspaper on Saturday but the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
(FAZ) claimed that it had been written by the editorial team of the
Titanic satirical magazine, not Grass.
“I am the author of this
poem,” Grass told Kathimerini on Sunday. “The malicious report in FAZ
shows the low quality of this newspaper.”
Greece was being
disparaged as a country “below junk value,” Grass wrote in his poem. He
said Greece was being “abandoned as a naked debtor in the dock, a
country suffers ... and is condemned to poverty.” | 
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