Last week I had suggested that they wouldn''t as the benefit very much from having them on the euro, but maybe I was wrong.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/07/germany-and-greece-cowhos-parasite.html
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/07/germany-will-never-let-greeks-leave-euro.html
I don't think I was 100% wrong- I still believe the Germans benefit greatly from having Greece on the euro, but the zeal the Germans are showing for Grexit seems sincere, it must be admitted.
Sometimes people do things that are against their interests and that seems to be what's happening in Germany today on a grand scale.
A story in the Financial Times today makes much of the fact that a prominent Social Democrat type in Germany has totally turned on the Greeks:
"When Greece infuriated its creditors by abandoning bailout talks and instead calling a national referendum, the most blistering German condemnation came not from chancellor Angela Merkel or her tough finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble."
"Instead, it was voiced by Sigmar Gabriel, the leader of the centre-left Social Democrats, who told the Tagesspiegel newspaper that Greek premier Alexis Tsipras had “pulled down the last bridges over which Europe and Greece could have moved to a compromise”.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0a805a22-2556-11e5-9c4e-a775d2b173ca.html#ixzz3fQUVUtPf
Yes, of course, it was outrageous for Tsipras to sully the Eurocratic process by actual democracy-the very idea!
Of course, what lead Tsipras to this moment of such blasphemy against all things Holy and Eurocratic? Basically, the EU had gotten everything they wanted but still wanted the bow on top of taking out Tsipras. It wasn't enough to force a bad deal down his throat he had to be destroyed.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/07/if-ambrose-pritchard-knows-whats.html
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/07/tripas-vs-eu-as-obama-vs-gop-congress.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DiaryOfARepublicanHater+%28Diary+of+a+Republican+Hater%29
The FT piece claims that Tsipras burned this bridge with all the allegedly leftist, populist parties of Europe.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0a805a22-2556-11e5-9c4e-a775d2b173ca.html#ixzz3fQWBmcDu
"In losing Mr Gabriel, a longstanding supporter of EU solidarity, Mr Tsipras has closed off a communications link between Athens and its most important creditor. He has also all but eliminated the prospect of Europe’s centre-left parties rallying around an initiative by France’s socialist president, François Hollande to try to snatch a last-minute deal."
"While the referendum may have caused the rupture, Henrik Enderlein, professor at Berlin’s Hertie School of Governance, traces it back to Mr Tsipras’s decision in January to eschew pro-EU, centre-left parties in Greece to instead form a coalition with a rightwing, anti-EU party."
“He didn’t want to work with the traditional European left. He wanted to destroy it and replace it with his hardliners,” Mr Enderlein observed. “The gap between Mr Tsipras and Mr Gabriel is huge.”
. "Over the five years of the Greek crisis, the SPD, a decades-long fan of EU integration, has consistently backed the common currency’s vulnerable economies. In the Bundestag, it has voted for every Greek aid package, in contrast with Ms Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU bloc, which boasts a growing band of Greece sceptics."
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0a805a22-2556-11e5-9c4e-a775d2b173ca.html#ixzz3fQWS5cRR
There is the problem right there. The SDP is pro-euro and what Tripas was elected on was a platofrom that at least questioned the euro consensus. In truth all these allegedly leftist, populist, parties had long since sold their own souls to the false God of euro integration.
It goes without saying that the Bundesbank, one of the most reactionary institutions in the world, is hellbent on Grexit-whatever the price which may well be great; for starters in means the default that the EU says in unacceptable.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/2230b2ec-260b-11e5-9c4e-a775d2b173ca.html#axzz3fOjADoqR
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/07/germany-and-greece-cowhos-parasite.html
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/07/germany-will-never-let-greeks-leave-euro.html
I don't think I was 100% wrong- I still believe the Germans benefit greatly from having Greece on the euro, but the zeal the Germans are showing for Grexit seems sincere, it must be admitted.
Sometimes people do things that are against their interests and that seems to be what's happening in Germany today on a grand scale.
A story in the Financial Times today makes much of the fact that a prominent Social Democrat type in Germany has totally turned on the Greeks:
"When Greece infuriated its creditors by abandoning bailout talks and instead calling a national referendum, the most blistering German condemnation came not from chancellor Angela Merkel or her tough finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble."
"Instead, it was voiced by Sigmar Gabriel, the leader of the centre-left Social Democrats, who told the Tagesspiegel newspaper that Greek premier Alexis Tsipras had “pulled down the last bridges over which Europe and Greece could have moved to a compromise”.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0a805a22-2556-11e5-9c4e-a775d2b173ca.html#ixzz3fQUVUtPf
Yes, of course, it was outrageous for Tsipras to sully the Eurocratic process by actual democracy-the very idea!
Of course, what lead Tsipras to this moment of such blasphemy against all things Holy and Eurocratic? Basically, the EU had gotten everything they wanted but still wanted the bow on top of taking out Tsipras. It wasn't enough to force a bad deal down his throat he had to be destroyed.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/07/if-ambrose-pritchard-knows-whats.html
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/07/tripas-vs-eu-as-obama-vs-gop-congress.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DiaryOfARepublicanHater+%28Diary+of+a+Republican+Hater%29
The FT piece claims that Tsipras burned this bridge with all the allegedly leftist, populist parties of Europe.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0a805a22-2556-11e5-9c4e-a775d2b173ca.html#ixzz3fQWBmcDu
"In losing Mr Gabriel, a longstanding supporter of EU solidarity, Mr Tsipras has closed off a communications link between Athens and its most important creditor. He has also all but eliminated the prospect of Europe’s centre-left parties rallying around an initiative by France’s socialist president, François Hollande to try to snatch a last-minute deal."
"While the referendum may have caused the rupture, Henrik Enderlein, professor at Berlin’s Hertie School of Governance, traces it back to Mr Tsipras’s decision in January to eschew pro-EU, centre-left parties in Greece to instead form a coalition with a rightwing, anti-EU party."
“He didn’t want to work with the traditional European left. He wanted to destroy it and replace it with his hardliners,” Mr Enderlein observed. “The gap between Mr Tsipras and Mr Gabriel is huge.”
. "Over the five years of the Greek crisis, the SPD, a decades-long fan of EU integration, has consistently backed the common currency’s vulnerable economies. In the Bundestag, it has voted for every Greek aid package, in contrast with Ms Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU bloc, which boasts a growing band of Greece sceptics."
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0a805a22-2556-11e5-9c4e-a775d2b173ca.html#ixzz3fQWS5cRR
There is the problem right there. The SDP is pro-euro and what Tripas was elected on was a platofrom that at least questioned the euro consensus. In truth all these allegedly leftist, populist, parties had long since sold their own souls to the false God of euro integration.
It goes without saying that the Bundesbank, one of the most reactionary institutions in the world, is hellbent on Grexit-whatever the price which may well be great; for starters in means the default that the EU says in unacceptable.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/2230b2ec-260b-11e5-9c4e-a775d2b173ca.html#axzz3fOjADoqR
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