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while eurocrats demand political cost!
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A
decision by the Supreme Court in Greece, comes in a very crucial
moment for the negotiations with the lenders.
From
enikos.gr:
The
Supreme Administrative Court of Greece has ruled that all cuts in
pensions and the "zero deficit clause" are
unconstitutional, the vice vice-speaker of the Greek parliament,
Alexis Mitropoulos, revealed on ANT1 TV .
The
ruling will be officially announced either later on Friday or
Monday.
Pension
cuts were imposed by successive Greek governments in the context
of commitments assumed under the bailout agreements.
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Greece
is about to destroy the brutal neoliberal experiment and this will
make Greece's lenders more aggressive. The decision by the supreme
court is sending a clear signal to the elites that there is a solid
front inside the country against their plans to impose further
neoliberal catastrophic policies.
The
negotiating power of SYRIZA coalition increases as recent polls have
shown that the Greek people steadily support the government.
Meanwhile, a cynical statement was made by a eurozone official, demanding
political cost in Greece:
“'The
financing of the Greek government is not sustainable without a third
programme, additional financing,' a senior euro zone official said
ahead of a meeting of euro zone deputy finance ministers on
Wednesday. [...] Agreement will be tricky, because the euro zone
wants Greece to commit to major policy changes that go against what
Tsipras and his Syriza party promised voters, notably on pension and
labour market reforms. 'I don't see a possible conclusion if the
Greeks don't make a very significant move in one or two or three
areas,' the official said. 'It could be pensions, it could be the
labour market but ... they have to pay the political cost.
The Eurogroup wants to see that political cost being paid.'”
(http://goo.gl/ckQOpb)
Obviously,
eurocrats are not interested to keep any pretexts, anymore, and this
is another good sign that their only agony is to see the completion
of the experiment in Greece. They don't care about the social,
political, or even economic cost, as their policies in the last five
years completely ruined Greece in every aspect.
The US is having heaps of fun restarting the Cold War splitting the coalescing East from the West and killing millions from the Balkans to Ukraine through the Middle East to East Asia. But the West cannot defeat the East and the struggle will exhaust the West. And for what? To attempt to stop the world to come in the East from the world that is expiring in the West.
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