"The average volume of worldwide arms transfers for 2005–2009 was 22 per cent higher than the period 2000–2004. [...] Greece remains among the top five largest recipient of major conventional weapons for 2005-2009, but has fallen from third place for 2000
"Pakistan sörjer minst 300 personer som sägs ha omkommit på Medelhavet förra veckan. Det är fortsatt svårt att säga exakt hur många som drunknade när en överfylld migrantbåt sjönk utanför Grekland."
Se även https://www.collettiva.it/copertine/internazionale/2023/06/16/podcast/strage-migranti-mai-fatalita-3158675/ : i moltiplicano le testimonianze e i video che confermerebbero l'ipotesi di un colpevole ritardo degli interventi della Guardia costiera greca durante l'affondamento del barcone con a bordo circa 750 migranti al largo delle coste del Peloponneso lo scorso 13 giugno.
"Tämän vuoden aikana noin 72 000 pakolaista ja siirtolaista on YK:n tilaston mukaan tullut Välimeren maihin Italiaan, Espanjaan, Kreikkaan, Maltalle ja Kyprokselle." (HS 14.6.: "Kymmeniä siirtolaisia hukkui matkalla Libyasta Italiaan Kreikka on julistanut kolmen päivän suruajan onnettomuuden vuoksi."
Europäische Staaten haben 4,6 Billionen Euro Steuergelder riskiert, um Banken zu retten und die Wirtschaft zu stabilisieren. Eine massive Entwertung von privaten Kapitalanlagen konnte so vorerst verhindert werden. Der dadurch bedingte Anstieg der Staatsschulden hat aber die öffentlichen Defizite und damit die Einschnitte in Bildungsbudgets, bei öffentlichen Dienstleitungen und Zukunftsinvestitionen drastisch verschärft. Wir fordern darum die griechische und deutsche Regierung dazu auf, eine Abgabe auf große Privatvermögen einzuführen. Außerdem rufen wir dazu auf, dass unsere Regierungen sich für eine europäische Initiative für eine solche Vermögensabgabe in allen Mitgliedstaaten der EU einsetzen. Gleichzeitig müssen gemeinsame Anstrengungen unternommen werden, Steueroasen auszutrocknen und Steuerflucht zu verhindern, damit die Abgabe fair erhoben werden kann.
philhellenism ... an example of governments being persuaded by public opinion and, ultimately, of state interests bowing to the mandates of ethics and ideology
- Erasmus for taxidrivers - who controls the Troika? - the big problem of nationalism, it is irrational 51 - antisemitism and christianity; self-image and identity - Tsipras' (Syriza) proposal, Eur conf on debt:l 55 (1955 conf) - entrepreneurs 1.07 - leftwing eurosceptics 1.09-1.13 how to build Europe (process, history, DC-B as baby 1945 talking too early) - eurobonds will come after Germ election s 1.15 - film insdustry, dreams, identity, we have to defend 1.17 - Turkey, Middle East, Balkan 1.18-1.22 - we have to overcome Dayton 1.22.30 - 2o14 parties , alliance of profed parties? 1.24.45 - 1.25 spinelli
Ein Paradebeispiel für solche Geschäfte ist der Verkauf von 170 Panzern, die Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) bis vor kurzem an die Griechen lieferte. Dafür sollte das Unternehmen 1,7 Milliarden Euro erhalten. Bei solchen Deals fließen in der Regel Millionen für Beratungsleistungen. Was genau da beraten wird und warum die Firmen meist in Steueroasen sitzen, wird selten bekannt. Die geheimen Firmen gehören in der Regel griechischen "Vermittlern" - oft honorige Industrielle. Die, so besteht häufig der Verdacht, verteilen dann die Gelder an Entscheidungsträger.
WDR 15.2.2012 "Die griechische Armee ist damit im Verhältnis fast vier Mal so groß wie die deutsche. Ebenso überzogen ist die Aufstellung der Panzer: Griechenland besitzt etwa 1600 Panzer, darunter auch das neueste Modell des Leopard II-Panzers der Münchener Firma Krauss-Maffei Wegmann. So gut ist nicht mal die Bundeswehr ausgestattet. Sie verfügt nur über 400 Panzer."
"On June 21, 2009 Ambassador of Ukraine to Greece Valerii Tsybukh took part at the invitation of the Municipality of Aegina, the “Ioannis Capodistrias” Cities’ Network, the Aegina Association of Active Citizens and of the Office of the European Parliament
07/05/2010 France and Germany, while publicly urging Greece to make harsh public spending cuts, bullied its government to confirm billions of euros in arms deals, a leading Euro-MP alleged Friday. Franco-German lawmaker Daniel Cohn-Bendit said that Paris and Berlin are seeking to force Prime Minister George Papandreou to spend Greece's scarce cash on submarines, a fleet of warships, helicopters and war planes. "Mr Fillon and Mr Sarkozy told Mr Papandreou: 'We're going to raise the money to help you, but you are going to have to continue to pay the arms contracts that we have with you'," Cohn-Bendit said. "In the past three months we have forced Greece to confirm several billion dollars in arms contracts. French frigates that the Greeks will have to buy for 2.5 billion euros. Helicopters, planes, German submarines."
"Since the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, Greece has spent an estimated €216bn on armaments, although I am 100% certain that in absolute terms its defence expenditure is much greater than official documents would show due to the so-called secret funds the state has access to," said Katerina Tsoukala, a Brussels-based security expert.
COSTAS LAPAVITSAS, ECONOMICS PROF., UNIV. OF LONDON: "The source of power for Germany as an economic presence at the moment is very much the eurozone."
By Nick Dearden of Jubilee Debt Campaign: "The International Monetary Fund and World Bank lent money to dozens of countries which would otherwise have defaulted, in order to keep the debt repayments flowing back to the banks of the rich world who had created the crisis by their own reckless strategies. Then, those countries, which benefited not at all from these ‘bail-out’ funds, were told to implement structural adjustment policies which saw industry privatised, money freed from government control and markets ripped open to competition with well-subsidised companies from the US and Europe. Poverty boomed, inequality soared and finance was proclaimed king. The same logic lies barely concealed behind the Greece ’bail-out’ being agreed by European finance ministers today. There is not even a pretence that Greece’s people will benefit from these funds.
Kostas Vaxevanis was arrested on Sunday, after his weekly journal, Hot Doc, printed the list of names, which including prominent members of Greece's political and business elite.
"Of the two threatened implosions, the one symbolized by Greece is easier to solve. It basically only requires that Germany realize that its needs are better met by European protectionism than by German protectionism. The Belgian crisis poses a much more
"If you only focus on the dark side of the Nazis, they just appear like crazies operating slightly out of time. If you look at the SS as an elite, sophisticated level of management grappling with overpopulation, unemployment and European fragmentation, they become depathologised, and what happened under the Reich flows naturally into what came after, rather than some aberrant historical blip."
Democratic Left, which won six per cent of the votes and 19 seats, suggested last week that it would be prepared to join a coalition including the established parties. But it later backtracked, saying it would not be part of any government that did not include the largest anti-bailout grouping, Syriza. Mr Kouvelis said yesterday that any coalition government should "immediately" cancel legislation that slashed the minimum wage and facilitated layoffs, and start to "disengage" Greece from the unpopular EU-IMF rescue package.
Samassa tilanteessa on Suomi. Vaikka Suomessa ei ole sotalaivateollisuutta, Kreikan uuden tukipaketin myötä suomalaiset osallistuisivat hankintaan laskennallisesti jopa 24 miljoonalla eurolla. Der Spiegel kertoo erikoisesta tilanteesta, joka voi hyvinkin olla valtiovarainministeri Wolfgang Schäublen eilisen Kreikka-toppuuttelun taustalla. Kreikan puolustusvoimat on nimittäin tilaamassa kahdesta neljään raskasta sota-alusta Ranskalta. Tilauksen arvo on vähintään 600 miljoonaa euroa, ja se pitää sisällään mahdollisuuden palauttaa tuote, jos siltä tuntuu. Saksalainen telakka- ja varustamoyhtiö ThyssenKrupp on julkisuudessa hiljaa, mutta Spiegelin tietojen mukaan se käy armotonta lobbaussotaa ranskalaisia kilpailijoitaan vastaan. Kiista on jo saanut poliittisen luonteen, jonka pelätään uhkaavan ensi viikonlopun eurosopua. Eritoten saksalaisyhtiötä kismittää Ranskan tarjoama viiden vuoden maksuaika ja sen jälkeen voimaan astuva optio palauttaa laivat Ranskan merivoimille. Thyssen näkee tässä ranskalaisten juonen tukea omaa telakkateollisuuttaan saksalaisten kustannuksella. Suomi rahoittaisi ostosta laskennallisesti noin 6 miljoonalla eurolla per sotalaiva.
Le scandale de surveillance contre des politiciens, des journalistes et des hommes d’affaires est une « tache » sur la démocratie grecque qui s’élargit chaque semaine, selon Reporters sans frontières. Les autorités grecques doivent enfin agir et l’Europe intervenir.