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Unions call strike as EU pressures Greece on debt

World Feb. 07, 2012 - 11:39AM JST ( 5 )

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MaboDofuIsSpicyFeb. 07, 2012 - 04:09PM JST

I guess Greece is striving extra hard to be the first to become insolvent.
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MadvertsFeb. 07, 2012 - 07:53PM JST

More Euro leftwing lunacy. Go Greece, strike your way out of bankrupcy. It's sure to be a winning combination!
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lucabrasiFeb. 07, 2012 - 09:02PM JST

More Euro leftwing lunacy

Which makes a change from the right-wing, laissez-faire lunacy which brought about the current crisis.
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Antonios_MFeb. 07, 2012 - 09:20PM JST

I guess Papademos is having a tough time being a Prime Minister in a country of lunatics. The main problem is that there are many influential people within Greece who wish a return to Drachma (for their own reasons, of course) and they ignore what impact that would have on the income of the average Greek citizen. It will be beyond imagination. Moreover, these influential people control the media (if you tune on almost any of the major T.V. channels in Greece - such as Mega, Ant1, etc - it is almost guaranteed that there will be a rhetoric against the austerity measures and the necessary reforms).

Meanwhile, the leftists just love a return to Drachma and to isolation. Yes, leftist political parties in Greece (K.K.E and Syriza) are the most radical and extremist political parties in the whole Europe. The one wishes Greece to turn literally into a Soviet type country such as Cuba and N. Korea and the other one wishes to abolish completely the banking system and open the borders to illegal immigrants. Of course, any rational person (outside of Greece) would expect that these parties would barely get a 3-4% in the elections. Guess what? In the last opinion polls, both of them had more than 25% and they are getting more and more popular. You can also add the Labor Unions which do not wish to make any compromise and you understand why the situation is f...d up.

My opinion was that back in October a government consisted only of technocrats should have formed in order to implement all the reforms. Papademos himself is not enough. I am afraid that it is too late now...
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Samantha Zoe AsoFeb. 08, 2012 - 10:05AM JST

Just let Greece go. I love Greece and it's people but after I heard about the Athen's railwayline farce, I'd had enough.