Monday, March 9, 2015

Sputnik — Greek Finance Minister Rejects Possibility of Withdrawal From Eurozone

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has stressed that his country does not intend to leave the Eurozone and all speculations to the contrary are harmful to the ongoing negotiation process with the creditors... 
Speaking to reporters on Monday, Varoufakis said that he never expressed support for withdrawal from the Eurozone (Grexit) in his Saturday interview with the Corriere della Sera newspaper, but only said that "hypothetically", Greece would have to hold elections or a referendum if the Eurogroup rejects the current leadership's reform proposals in the debt negotiations.

According to Varoufakis, the newspaper interpreted his words incorrectly, claiming that he expressed support for a referendum in favor of Grexit.
Varoufakis also said that he was satisfied with the results of Eurogroup talks and that Greece has not been wasting time, contrary to Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem's claims, and plans to present an additional list of reforms to the group of Eurozone finance ministers....
Sputnik
Greek Finance Minister Rejects Possibility of Withdrawal From Eurozone

5 comments:

mike norman said...

Hahahahaaa. Children. Varoufakis, Tsipras, Syriza. Not adults. Not men. Children, playing games.

Kristjan said...

Greece's defence minister threatens to send migrants including jihadists to Western Europe

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/11459675/Greeces-defence-minister-threatens-to-send-migrants-including-jihadists-to-Western-Europe.html


Mr Kammenos, who is the leader of the Right-wing Independent Greeks party which is in coalition with Greece’s ruling far-Left Syriza government, said that the EU’s passport free “Schengen” travel zone left the eurozone vulnerable.

"If they strike us, we will strike them. We will give to migrants from everywhere the documents they need to travel in the Schengen area, so that the human wave could go straight to Berlin,” he said.

Last week, Nikos Kotzias, the Greek foreign minister, also told a meeting of his EU colleagues that if Greece was forced out of the euro "there will be tens of millions of immigrants and thousands of jihadists”


How can you possibly threaten your partners in EZ "give me money or else" and stay in such a monetary union? Not only that I don't understand the Greece's government, I don't understand Greek people who support the government. Why do you want to stay in a monetary union that fucks you over, and so much so that you threaten them with jihadists. You must not be proud of your country to become an extortionist like this. May be Syriza is not behind this and the government will break up?

Malmo's Ghost said...

Syriza coalition will detonate in 10 9 8....

Malmo's Ghost said...

Talk about games. Syriza comes off as simply double talking, cluttered cognitive fools, YV in particular:

“...The troika is a cabal of technocrats that used to arrive in Athens and enter the ministries with a kind of power play that smacked of a colonial attitude,” Varoufakis said at a press conference after the meeting. “That practice is finished. We shall endeavor to do whatever it takes to provide the institutions with whatever information they need...It’s impossible for Greece’s creditors to adequately audit the government’s accounts without sending officials to Athens, a troika official said. The government would need to fly hundreds of Greek officials to Brussels for the work to be done there, he added.

As Draghi pressed Varoufakis to accept the return of the troika officials, the minister said that the idea that Greece was opposed to such a move was a misunderstanding, according to one of the officials with direct knowledge of the exchange.

Can they start soon? Draghi asked.

Varoufakis agreed. ”


How about that for an example of talking out of both sides of one's mouth? lol.

Ralph Musgrave said...

The article linked to above doesn't give any ACTUAL REASONS for Grexit being a bad idea. Is that because Varoufakis can't think his way out of a paper bag, or because the person writing the article can't think their way out of a paper bag?