Merkel urged Germans to be more patient even though the eurozone crisis has already dragged on for three years. She drew a line linking German prosperity to a prosperous European Union. "For our prosperity and our solidarity we need to strike the right balance. The European sovereign debt crisis shows how important this balance is. The reforms that we've introduced are beginning to have an impact", she said. "Nevertheless we need to have further continued patience."
Merkel said she hoped there would be more controls next year on international financial markets - a popular issue in Germany that the SPD is planning to make a central plank of its 2013 election campaign. "The world hasn't sufficiently learned the lessons of the devastating 2008 financial crisis", she said. "Never again can we allow irresponsibility like back then to happen. In a social market economy, the state is the guardian of order - and that is something people should be able to count on."
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