In
an exclusive interview at the Athens News Agency, the president of
the most powerful trade union in Europe and globally, The
Confederation of German Trade Unions (DGB), Reiner Hoffmann, said
that Greece fell into a sociopolitical coma because of the wrong
Troika (European Commission, IMF, ECB) policies.
Hoffmann
referred also to the US rating agencies, saying that it is a
mechanism that needs to be fixed, so that the "wrong medicine"
should not be given. He described as scandalous the fact that the US
rating agencies, who are responsible for the international economic
crisis, continue to co-decide the European economic policy.
According to
Hoffmann, Europe can be saved only with the enhancement of its social
dimension, which can be achieved through a European minimum wage. A
wage which must not lie below the 60% of the national income average,
as he says.
Especially
for the countries of the European north, the president of DGB says
that there is a need for reinforcement of the employment contracts
autonomy, which has been damaged significantly. He disagrees with
Angela Merkel because she supports this policy for Germany although
rejects it concerning other European countries.
Concerning
Greece, he believes that the country will recover through re-heating
the economic growth with investments. Further cuts in the social
sector will reduce significantly the internal consumption. Greece has
to proceed in reforms, but these must not include further social
demolition in their core, as he says.
He considers
the German government ineffective concerning the policies imposed to
Greece and equally responsible with the Troika on defining the wrong
therapy for the crisis. He also considers Greece as the tests field
for the neoliberal policies.
Meanwhile,
new evidence has come to light, indicating that EU officials
deliberately put further barriers to Greece, while the country
struggles to recover from the economic crisis and deal effectively
the refugee problem.
SYRIZA MEP,
Stelios Kouloglou, put a question to the European Commission, based
on some documents that have been revealed.
Specifically:
On
Wednesday, January 27th, the EC Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis
held a press conference during which he shared certain points related
to the Schengen Evaluation Report on Greece, which was presumably
based on a site visit carried out in November 2015 in Greece.
Nevertheless, the foresaid Evaluation Report had not been adopted by
the competent Schengen Commission.
Regrettably,
according to documents
revealed in Dombrovskis’ version, certain
negative conclusions were included, not based, though, on a new site
visit. Specifically, the following sentences had been added: “There
are serious deficiencies in the carrying out of external border
control. Greece has seriously neglected its frontier duties to
Europe's free-travel Schengen zone”.
As mentioned
in previous article:
“Brussels bureaufascists have sent another
ultimatum to Greece
concerning the refugees, demanding from the country to 'maintain
proper border controls', or, will be excluded from the Schengen zone.
And all these, after they destroyed Greece economically, while
decided to give 3 billion euros to Turkey to deal with the refugee
problem!”
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