This cartoon by Bob from The Daily Telegraph is inspired by the The Raft of the Medusa (French: Le Radeau de la Méduse), an oil painting of 1818–1819 by the French Romantic painter Théodore Géricault (1791–1824), which depicts a moment from the aftermath of the wreck of the French naval frigate Méduse, which ran aground off the coast of today's Mauritania on July 5, 1816. At least 147 people were set adrift on a hurriedly constructed raft; all but 15 died in the 13 days before their rescue, and those who survived endured starvation, dehydration, cannibalism and madness. (Source: Wikipedia)
Bob's version relates to yesterday's vote by Germany's parliament in favour of supporting a more powerful fund to bail out troubled Eurozone economies. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is shown holding out a lifebelt to the shipwrecked sailors on the raft who include Greek PM George Papandreou, Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi and Spanish PM José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. But is it too little, too late?
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