How
the ECB dictatorial regime used the liquidity weapon in order to
impose its terms on the Irish government
In 2010, Ireland experienced
Frankfurt's political blackmail. On the 18th of November, where there
was a governing council of the ECB in Frankfurt. The governor of the
Irish central bank who sat on the governing council, called "Morning
Ireland" which is the most important radio program in Ireland,
to say that Ireland will need what he called a loan. He didn't warn
the government about it and this created a massive panic.
Then, the next day, there was a
letter written from the then president of ECB, Jean-Claude Trichet,
to Brian Lenihan, the minister of finance at the time, saying that
'if you don't apply the so-called bailout program, by this opening of
the markets the following Monday, we're going to cut off access to
Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA)', which obviously would have
collapsed the Irish banking system.
The ECB used the liquidity weapon
in order to impose its terms on the Irish government: austerity,
privatizations, labor market deregulation. The ECB enforces fiscal
policy, which is not what a central bank should do. And it does this
by denying ELA, or, by providing liquidity, or not providing
liquidity.
The ECB had basically taken over
the government. In Ireland, they forced the government to bailout the
banks at huge cost to the Irish population. They blackmailed the
country with shutting its banks.
In 2014, the Irish parliament
established a committee to investigate why the Irish people had paid
the debts of the banks. Jean-Claude Trichet refused to testify. He
agreed to answer only predefined questions at a location of his
choice.
The outcome for the people was
disastrous, still it's disastrous. Ireland is the so-called 'success
story' of Europe. That is one big lie. Unemployment went to over 20%,
youth unemployment was higher. One in four young people emigrated,
the rates of deprivation went through the roof. One in three people
are now deprived.
Even though the country is
supposedly out of the program, it is under post-program surveillance.
There is still undemocratic interference, even within the standards
of capitalist democracy.
Information taken from the new
documentary This
Is Not A Coup by Aris Chatzistefanou
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