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The Euro Crisis and European Identities, New Perspectives in German Political Studies, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-51611-0 216 LIST of PRIMARY SOURCES CITED LIST OF PRIMARY SOURCES CITED GERMANY Speeches Gabriel, Sigmar (21 May 2010), ‘Wir haben eine Menge geleistet, und jetzt wird nur angekündigt’, speech to the Bundestag on the Euro bailout programme, Available at: http://www.spdfraktion.de/themen/reden/wir-haben-eine- menge-geleistet-und-jetzt-wird-nur-angek%C3%BCndigt, Accessed 14 March 2013. Merkel, Angela (25 March 2010), ‘Regierungserklärung’, government declaration on the European Council summit in Brussels on 25/26 March 2010 from the Federal Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel to the German Bundestag, Berlin, Available at: http://www.bundesregierung.de/Content/DE/Bulletin/ 2010/03/33-1-bk-bt.html, Accessed 7 July 2014. 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