The new Greek government program | 171 comments (171 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: This could have gone worse, no? (none / 1)

Greece will be/should be better prepared for exiting the Euro, if nothing else.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Tue Feb 24th, 2015 at 02:00:16 PM EST
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Re: This could have gone worse, no? (4.00 / 3)

Agreed. Unfortunate that they didn't exit in 2010. They should have.

But if Greece could be fixed in 3 or 4 months, it would have already been done.

Greece could have been fixed in the short term by simply stopping corruption at the top, but the necessity of that can't be proven in a mere semester.

by Upstate NY on Tue Feb 24th, 2015 at 02:12:44 PM EST
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Re: This could have gone worse, no? (none / 0)

I can only hope that the new government proceeds aggressively with corruption investigations. Especially sweet would be to find something deserving of serious prosecution involving someone who is also an important donor to the current German govenment.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Tue Feb 24th, 2015 at 02:53:55 PM EST
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Re: This could have gone worse, no? (4.00 / 7)

Well, there is the fact that Germany refuses to extradite the former head of the Siemens Greek division, even though he is a Greek national.

by Upstate NY on Tue Feb 24th, 2015 at 03:00:37 PM EST
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Re: This could have gone worse, no? (none / 1)

Tsipras should raise press issue in the Eurogroup, EC and have parliamentarians do it in the EP. I doubt he is the only likely perp.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Tue Feb 24th, 2015 at 03:07:10 PM EST
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Re: This could have gone worse, no? (4.00 / 5)

He's not. There's a list of about 30 of them. But I though that the German courts had ruled that they had managed to drag it out for so long that the statute of limitations applied.

by gk (gk (gk quattro due due sette @gmail.com)) on Tue Feb 24th, 2015 at 03:25:19 PM EST
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Re: This could have gone worse, no? (none / 0)

International Court of Justice?

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Wed Feb 25th, 2015 at 10:25:47 AM EST
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The new Greek government program | 171 comments (171 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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