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"It would have caused a chuckle among British tabloid readers. In Germany (and Greece) it caused a storm. On February 22 2010, the German news magazine Focus published a cover that depicted the Aphrodite of Milos with an outstretched arm making a very rude gesture at its readers. The caption – "Cheats in our euro-family" – was clearly directed at Greece, which was just then negotiating a €110bn bailout package with its eurozone partners. Now a group of Greeks is suing FOCUS for defamation."
"... it represented a shift of German attitudes away from unquestioning support for European integration towards a more hard-nosed attitude towards the EU. Focus was not alone."
