Friday, 11 April 2014 5 attempt to ascribe to German politics a national interest in European democratisation is a mere illusion, "bearing in mind that he presumes that Germany could impose this, should the country find the will to pursue enlightened policies that would keep its interests under control." Streeck does not believe that German citizens need the euro and that, therefore, they can longer turn their backs on monetary unification they do not control completely and will end up costing more than it brings in. To avoid electoral reprisals, which affected Schröder due to his "neoliberal reforms", "a government seriously wishing to move from national to European democracy, would have to at the latest in four years' time have achieved its objective and replaced German elections with European ones, if wishing to avoid or eliminate the consequences of what Habermas hoped for the September 22 Bundestag elections [2013]; hence a dramatic rise in votes for parties such as the Alternative für Deutschland." In Streeck's opinion, Habermas' idea "minimises" the problem posed by an integration that is not in the best interests of any member states, and that, "as implemented ever since Jacques Delors, [...] has for a long time lost any chance of becoming democratised." Instead of looking for a way out in the passage from the parochialism of "small homelands" to the "great statism" of the European Union, we should "try and exploit Europe's characteristic fragmentation as a noncentralised response to the call to globalisation." In the "blitzkrieg" started by "technocracy" and "moneycracy" against the European people, the only line of defence would allegedly be the institutions of national states, without which "the project for a political democratic economy in Europe would not be quite so necessary, but rather dead and buried." If Time gained is the slogan for the nostalgic Left "that says no to Europe" and appeals to the national states "as the only positions from which it is possible to at least slow down the advance 