Krisen i Grekland - den ENDA tråden

[inkfish]

Brittiska channel4:s Paul Mason tycker att Grekland ändå vann når det gäller skulden. Men att demokratin är förloraren.

Slutet på hans läsvärda blogginlägg är snyggt:

What they’ve arguably got is a global reputational disaster: the crushing of a left-wing government elected on a landslide, the flouting of a 61 per cent referendum result. The EU – a project founded to avoid conflict and deliver social justice – found itself transformed into the conveyor of relentless financial logic and nothing else.

Ordinary people don’t know enough about the financial logic to understand why this was always likely to happen: bonds, haircuts and currency mechanisms are distant concepts. Democracy is not. Everybody on earth with a smartphone understands what happened to democracy last night.

http://blogs.channel4.com/paul-mason...acy-loser/4155

[Yanna]

Hur kunde det gå så illa med Grekland? Ja, här är iaf EN megastor orsak!

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15740

Yanna

[Admirala]

The agreement that Tsipras achieved (caveat: as we know it) after negotiating for 17 hours, is a lot worse than anyone could have imagined. It is also a lot better than anyone could hope. It simply depends on whether you focus on what has been lost or what has been gained. The loss is a package of horrific austerity. It is a package which, anyone with any political understanding knows, was coming anyway. The only difference is that, through a compliant government like the previous ones, it would be accompanied by no compensations.
What has been gained in return is much more money than previously imagined to properly fund the medium term and allow the government to implement its programme, a significant stimulus package, the release of EFSF money which had until now been denied (to the "good" government of Samaras), and an agreement to restructure debt, by transferring bonds from IMF and ECB to the ESM. That is nothing, hecklers heckle. ERT analyst Michael Gelantalis estimates this last part alone to be worth between eight and ten billion less in interest repayments a year. That is a lot of souvlaki.

https://www.byline.com/column/11/article/164

[malou]

Ursprungligen postat av Yanna

Hur kunde det gå så illa med Grekland? Ja, här är iaf EN megastor orsak!
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15740
Yanna

Dessverre sant. Skandaløst av Siemens, og ikke minst av alle de korrupte offentlige tjenestemenn/departementer i Hellas som bærer en stor del av skylden. Her er en nyere artikkel om saken; man forbauses over omfanget. http://greece.greekreporter.com/2014...emens-scandal/


Sjefen for Siemens hadde for øvrig et møte med Varoufakis om saken, i februar?