Merkel Snared In The Status Quo.

From: David Quarrie, Lynden Way, Holgate, York. (Yorks Post.)

BECAUSE of the euro, Germany, and especially her Chancellor, Angela Merkel, is like a woman trapped on a bridge burning at both ends, with crocodiles in the river beneath her: She cannot go forwards, nor can she retreat, and she cannot jump off. She is a slave of the status quo.
I must admit that I really hadn't seen it in those stark terms but Mr Quarrie is certainly on the money.