The headline is deliberately offensive for as someone who, pro tem, lives in the EU I am utterly offended by an assault on free speech taking place in Germany right now.
Comedian Jan Böhmermann read out a poem in Germany about Turkey's fascist President Erdogan. You know the guy who closes down papers and TV stations that criticise him and treats journalists as "terrorists" if they are not "on side". Erdogan demanded Germany prosecute the guy and Angela Merkel has now agreed to this.
Turkey wants to join the EU and no doubt will while Germany is the most powerful nation in the EU and we want to be part of this club? It defies belief that this sort of thing could happen in 21st Century Europe.
One might imagine it if Germany was still lead by Time Magazine's person of the year 1938 but that the next German leader to win that prestigious title acts in this way is shocking.
If Mrs Merkel thinks that such behaviour is going to ensure that the EU Reich lasts for 1000 years with or without an anschluss with Turkey she is sadly mistaken. That was also meant to be gratuitously offensive.