In Idiomatic English, this Would Be Referred to as...

...throwing Greece under the bus:

Angela Merkel has cast doubt for the first time on Europe's chances of saving Greece from financial meltdown and sovereign default, conceding that Europe's first ever multibillion euro bailout coupled with savage austerity was not working after a two-year crisis that has brought the single currency to the brink of unravelling.

Just curious here: has any German-language news outlet cataloged the number of confident statements / predictions made by EU leaders in the past three years that turned out to be (a) wrong; or (b) lies?

The list would, I imagine, be quite long. Yet in the mainstream German media, all of this seems to get swept under the rug, and Merkel is congratulated for facing up to tough realities when, in fact, she's often simply backtracking on earlier promises or abandoning earlier predictions.

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[Roger]

The whole interview in english: http://www.london.diplo.de/Vertretung/london/en/03/__Political__News/01/Merkel__Interview.html