German Finance Minister Schauble did not attend yesterday's ECOFIN meeting!

The fact that Germany was not properly represented at last nights crucial meeting seems to be ignored in the English press, although there are many reports in Italian.

One link stating the following is here:

epa02150528 Illustration picture shows the entrance to the Emergency Room, at the 'Clinique Parc Leopold - Ziekenhuis Leopold Park', where German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble is supposedly hospitalised, 09 May 2010. Schauble was to attend the Extraordinary Ecofin Council meeting in Brussels today, but he was taken to hospital, and is replaced by German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere at the Ecofin meeting. EPA/NICOLAS

Is this fact extraordinarily significant? In view of the outcome of the meeting, I believe that it is!!!!