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Michael Snyder says Greek Debt Deal’ Is Already Starting To Fall Apart
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Michael Snyder
July 15, 2015
The “deal that was designed to fail” has already begun to unravel.
The IMF, which was expected to provide a big chunk of the financing,
has indicated that it may walk away from the deal unless Greece is
granted extensive debt relief. This is something that the Germans and
their allies have resolutely refused to do. Meanwhile, outrage is
pouring in from all over Europe regarding what the Greek government is
being forced to do to their own people. Most of this anger is being
directed at the Germans, but the truth is that without German money the
Greek banking system and the Greek economy will completely and utterly
collapse. So even though Greek Prime Minister Alex Tsipras admits that
this is a deal that he does not believe in, he is attempting to get it
pushed through the Greek parliament, and we should know on Wednesday
whether he was successful or not. But even if the Greek parliament
approves it, we could still see either the German or the Finnish
parliaments reject it. It seems as though nobody is really happy with
this deal, and these negotiations have exposed very deep divisions
within Europe. Could this be the beginning of the end for the eurozone?
The Germans appear to believe that they can push the Greeks out of
the eurozone and that everything will be okay somehow. This is
something that I wrote about extensively yesterday, and it turns out that a lot of other prominent voices agree with me. For example, just consider what Paul Krugman of the New York Times had to say about this. I am kind of amazed that he finally got something right…
Suppose you consider Tsipras an incompetent twerp. Suppose you dearly want to see Syriza out of power. Suppose, even, that you welcome the prospect of pushing those annoying Greeks out of the euro.Even if all of that is true, this Eurogroup list of demands is madness. The trending hashtag ThisIsACoup
is exactly right. This goes beyond harsh into pure vindictiveness,
complete destruction of national sovereignty, and no hope of relief. It is, presumably, meant to be an offer Greece can’t accept; but even so, it’s a grotesque betrayal of everything the European project was supposed to stand for.
Greece desperately wants to stay in the euro, and they desperately
want money from the rest of Europe to keep coming in. At this point,
they will agree to just about anything to keep from
getting booted out of the common currency. That is why the Germans and
their allies had to make the deal so horrible. They were attempting to
find some way to make things so harsh on the Greeks that they would
finally choose to walk away.
And to a certain extent it seems to be working. Even some members of
Syriza are publicly declaring that they are going to vote against this
package. The following comes from the Washington Post…
Greek Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis, who leads a
hard-line leftist faction within Syriza, said in a statement Tuesday
that the country’s creditors had “acted like cold-blooded blackmailers and economic assassins.”Yet he also took indirect aim at Tsipras, calling on the Greek prime
minister to reverse himself and tear up the agreement, which he
described as a violation of the party’s ideals.Even if Tsipras can pass the deal in Parliament, as he is expected to do, Lafazanis vowed that the Greek people would “annul it through their unity and struggle.”
Right now, the vote looks like it could be quite close. Even though
Greek Prime Minister Alex Tsipras has publicly admitted that this is a
deal that “I do not believe in“, he is really pushing hard to get the votes that he needs. In fact, according to Reuters he has been actively reaching out to opposition parties to secure votes…
Having staved off a financial
meltdown, Tsipras has until Wednesday night to pass measures tougher
than those rejected in a referendum days ago. With as many as 30-40
hardliners in his own ranks expected to mutiny, Tsipras will likely need
the support of pro-European opposition parties to muster the 151 votes
he needs to pass the law in parliament.
But even if this deal gets through parliament, it is highly
questionable whether Greece will actually be able to do what is being
required of them. For instance, the 50 billion euro “privatization
fund” seems to be something of a pipe dream…
Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2015/07/michael-snyder-says-greek-debt-deal-is.html
