Zis von’t go down vell in ze Fatherland !!

Remember Magda” Be careful with the Google translate!

Melodramatic, but they do have a point. Imperialism through economics..

Karatzaferis is in firey form. Earlier, he said Greece could not live outside the EU but it can live without the German “boot”. Gernany has ordered that Greece impose an additional €325 million in new even more severe cutbacks by next Wednesday – an order that must be obeyed. Total subjugation and absolute humiliation, and nothing less, is what Berlin and Brussels are demanding of Greece. http://www.athensnews.gr/

No wonder Enda & Eamon are getting patted on the head by the Troika for the good little boys they are. They’ve no stomach for a fight – just like most of the rest of the population here in Ireland. We’ve never valued our own independence or our own people. Emigration and poverty are nothing new to most of us and our future is as grim as our past.

So do this lot honestly believe that imposing austerity measures is the same as rounding up ethnic minorities, shunting them off to camps in overcrowded, freezing trains, starving them and then loading them into gas chambers to die?

Maybe they do. Or maybe they’re just pulling a disgustingly cheap stunt in order to shift some units.

Hard to say, really.

Wish we had a newspaper over here that told it like it is.

Smells of the Greek political parties shifting blame ahead of the general election in April.
They do not want to come clean on the fact that the austerity measures will be imposed, or not, as the case may be, by Greek politicians on the Greek people to pay for previous prolifigacy and corruption.

The Greek government have a choice; implement an agreed plan to achieve fiscal balance over the next several years or find another source of financing. To blame the Germans or any other member of the EU is playing to the gallery and lying to their electorate.

The average German citizen work hard and dutifully pays all appropriate taxes and follows the old time view of never a lender or a borrower be!
The fraudulent behavior of Greek governments and huge swathes of the working population expect everyone else in the Eurozone to bail them out rather than facing up to their responsibilities and repaying their debt.
While German Banks have been one of the lenders they are only one of many including every other European State and the average German is frightened that his abstemious behavior will ultimately overwhelm him and Bankrupt his country. This naturally puts political pressure on the German politicians in an election year and the response by Greece is to have their National newspapers issue the ultimate insult by picturing Angela Merkel in a Nazi uniform.
If this picture were to be published in Germany the Editor would be jailed and rightly so. I would urge Ms Merkel to seek an urgent injunction and sue for damages.
This outrage is a watershed and now is the time for the rest of the Eurozone to say to the cheating Greeks that they must go their own way as we cannot tolerate them bringing us all down with them.
A disgusting headline and picture from people who have been “revolting” in their behaviour!

When looking at these stories you have to look at all angles and apportion the blame. Firstly as was pointed out above it was Greek politicians who ran up such levels of debt, the Germans do have a right as their the ones paying for the majority of the fund to ask where its going. The German people have a right to be annoyed at bailing out smaller countries and it’s naive for us to think we shouldnt pay back what we can afford. The key sentence is afford. Greeces haircut on its debt presents a shift in thinking which is necessary yet may not have went far enough. The German politicians need to stop with this whole crusade approach as if there doing this to save the world when the total honest thing is that they’re looking after their own backs first and foremost

The Greeks want their have their cake and eat it. They have and continue to be reckless

Disturbingly attractive I meant to say. You need an edit function here…

Has anyone thought about the banks who loaned this money to Greece in the first place. They must have known that Greece was a basket case for years. They still loaned the money. No due diligence. Hardly!!! This just stinks of corruption at the highest levels of power.

Merkel is merely the PR spokeswoman for the policies, tho’ doubtless they suit her ideological bent (she wouldn’t be there otherwise).

What shouldn’t be forgotten is the finance, banking & economics establishment, yes, particularly German, that not only created the mess & a flawed currency union but are making a bigger mess following whilst avoiding any accountability.

The IMF are no strangers to destroying 3rd world countries (with the aid of a local elite) with precisely the policies being applied to Greece. When they are saying so much austerity is destroying economies (tho’ not offering much alternative of course) in Europe, we should be very concerned indeed about the motives & direction of the EU Commission & the ECB. Thinking dominated by neo liberal ideologues.

Greece has already implemented near two years of draconian austerity under the diktat of the ECB etc. & it has failed miserably. Simply doubling down on this policy will not produce recovery. It’s insane & inhuman.

Acting like a dictator’s a comment they’re entitled to make, but the nazi imagery’s a step too far. It’d be like calling Barack Obama an “N” word.

It is the Greek “transliteration” of Dachau, not the Greek “translation”..

Now that’s how you put it as it is!

Angela look looks disturbingly in that uniform. :P

Ha ve lost var bought haaaa europa