Euro zone crisis fix? There's an app for that

This actually isn’t funny considering the mess the sovereign nations of Europe are in.

Really the ECB has lost the plot and there is a serious lack of priorities in that bank.

Europe is falling apart, several sovereign nations are moving to a point where they are unable to turn over their debt or fund it, banks across the planet have massive write downs on issuer risk and are in effect undercapitalised, one of those banks (Dexia) has failed only a couple of weeks ago, two countries have suspended their governments and ousted their prime minister’s and pretty much everything except Germany is up for a downgrade.

So what does the supposed financial guardian plan to do - write software games for mobile phones.

Really this is economically obscene and partly perverse given the nature of the mobile phone games.

Totally agree that this is an awfull story.I hope it is a joke but i find it very unfunny. If this was football someone would get a red card and suspended

My my, what short memories you all have. Lets not starting criticising the ECB for the economic mess Europe is in. The root cause of the GFC was the unregulated greed of banks in North America copied by the idiots managing banks in Europe. The Eurozone political experiment may have backfired badly and impacted those economies which had been living beyond their means for decades but please - don't blame that on a few faceless bureaucrats in Frankfurt. Anyway, its nice to see the Germans have a sense of humour after all. 

Barking up the wrong tree ...

Sure, the current crisis affecting  the Euro zone is pretty critical, and there is little reason to joke about it.

But the European Central Bank is certainly not the main culprit to blame for that crisis, rather they are doing their best - within the limitations given by the surrouding political and economical environment - to keep things under control. Blame should be given to others who gamble with the economies of entire nations to satisfy their own greed.

Nor are the ECB people joking about the current situation. They did not create those games for fun, rather those were meant as educational tools. Maybe the current crisis would be less severe, if more people in the right positions had absorbed some of the thoughts conveyed via those games.