Today I talked to a Greek speaking friend. My friend is Turkish but fluent in Greek and he knows the place very well. I asked if the Greeks had any intention to pay their debts. He replied that it was a sum that the EU could easily afford and Greece was being hounded needlessly over what was a trifling sum next to the EU economy. He added: "If the EU cannot bail out Greece then it cannot bail out the any of the other countries either. The eurozone will break up. What remains of the eurozone will be dominated by Germany and France. Mostly Germany." The money that Greece borrowed from the EU had already been returned to the EU in the form of government contracts awarded to EU business and purchase of consumer products of EU origin. These are Greek views as interpreted by a Turkish man sympathetic to the Greeks.
There is no dialogue between Greece's leaders and the ordinary people. The leaders assume that Greece will pay and the people assume that it won't! That is why the leaders are not as optimistic as their people are
Wednesday, 9 November 2011
Posts
