Re:Greek Banks, Stock Exchange to Remain Closed From Monday
by toyg on Sunday June 28, 2015 @01:45PM
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Politics are already devastated, for the simple reason that all governments pre-Syriza put the country in this mess to begin with, and then simply couldn't find a way out that didn't involve huge social strife. The EU should help the new government correct the situation, if anything because they were elected with a relatively large mandate to do just that, and they clearly have the brains to do it (they took a smalltime ultraleft party and brought it in government, they can't be stupid). Instead, EU governments are scared of... What exactly?
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Re:Greek Banks, Stock Exchange to Remain Closed From Monday
by jacquesm on Sunday June 28, 2015 @02:20PM
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> Instead, EU governments are scared of... What exactly?
Their own electorate.
Re:Greek Banks, Stock Exchange to Remain Closed From Monday
by toyg on Monday June 29, 2015 @05:41AM
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Expectations of popular opposition to debt relief for Greece are greatly exaggerated. There is exactly one electorate slightly contrary (the German one) and even then, it's mostly due to tabloids stoking the fires of casual racism, that evergreen topic. Anybody who knows anything about how the Euro integration process happened and how Greek finances ended up in this state, will admit that 0.01% of Europe GDP is a pittance to pay for the benefit to humankind that a stable Euro would deliver.