‘On the brink of the Scream’. On 25 May 2012, taking inspiration from the expressionist painting ‘The Scream’ by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, German cartoonist Karl-Heinz Schoenfeld offers an ironic depiction of the existential crisis suffered by German Chancellor Angela Merkel when she sees the solution put forward by French President François Hollande — eurobonds — to combat the crisis in the euro zone. Germany is strongly opposed to this concept, which involves pooling part of the debt held by the countries of Europe to enable them all to borrow at the same rate through the issuing of eurobonds. For the Chancellor, the priorities are to strengthen competitiveness, restore order to public finance in the countries of Europe and observe strict budgetary rigour.