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Greece rejects blackmail; seeks meeting with top EU leaders

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greece can meet dear great great leader kim jonun to discuss a common measure to deal with blackmails they met everyday.

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Greece should leave Euro.

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pressure on Athens was growing and an emergency loan depended on real progress on reforms.

This does not sound like blackmail. If the EU is bound to give a loan (to help Greece at least temporarirly) they have the right to ask for progress on the reforms which they expect to stabalize the economy of Greece.

@Kaerimashita: Greece should leave Euro.

Yes, but then there will be (probably) nobody willing to spare the money necessary to bail it out and the country will have to deal with its bancruptcy and lack of financies by itself. The problems of Greece have arised and have been worsening because of the country's unwillingness (and I mean also the general public) to introduce reforms and follow them austere though they might be.

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Greece’s economic woes were fully realised in 2004, admitting its reported deficit when qualifying for euro membership was achieved through a act of accounting sleight of hand, in reality the deficit was close to 12% of GDP. The mountain of debt is politically insurmountable, currently running at 175.1% of GDP. The Greek economy would need to achieve regular primary surplus that are Alice in wonderland economics.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will be meeting President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on April 8, the timing is significant, EU leaders are in danger of losing control of the political process as Moscow drives a wedge between Greece and the other 27 national governments.

Victoria Nuland assistant secretary of state for European affairs can visualise fully the geopolitical threat President Vladimir Putin offer as a 'strategic protector of a kindred Orthodox state' poses. The German chancellor, Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schäuble German finance minister are appearing dangerously out manoeuvred by resorting to greater threats and acts of political brinksmanship.

It's half a dozen of one and six of the other entrenched mentality, petulant Greek offspring has been dipping into Auntie Angela's handbag once too often, completing few additional chores after a prolonged sentence on the naughty step doesn't cut the mustard

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Athens insisted it would not be blackmailed over its debt crisis.

They are not strange to doing some blackmailing of their own. Like pulling the nazi card out of the deck. Not honoring the latest agreements and questioning EU sanctions imposed on Russia because of its annexation of Crimea does not help much either to put any trust into the new government. Tsipras may look good on the screen and in photographs, but so far he's been low on substance. Is he now going to play the 'Putin card?' And/or the 'Beijing card'? Securing help from Moscow will come at a heavy price to pay. If Tsipras thinks he can get a better deal from a shrewd and untrustworthy thug like Putin he is blind and not fit for his job in spite of his unique way of trying to get his country back on track.

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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipra along with Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis must bite the bullet find a compromise that will pave the way for Greece to exit the Eurozone in a dignified and orderly manner.

The threats, the brinksmanship, the shocking spectacle of Europe's political leadership invoking the horrors of WWII as leverage to force a settlement is an appalling example for coming generations to witness.

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