" Enligt uppgifter som tyska statstelevisionen hämtat från Bank of International Settlement, "Centralbankernas bank", så är Grekland skyldig franska banker 92 miljarder euro och tyska banker 43 miljarder euro. Även det amerikanska bankväsendet är invol
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.
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."
By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: October 23, 2011 ...at this point, Greece, where the crisis began, is no more than a grim sideshow. The clear and present danger comes instead from a sort of bank run on Italy, the euro area’s third-largest economy. Investors, fearing a possible default, are demanding high interest rates on Italian debt. And these high interest rates, by raising the burden of debt service, make default more likely.
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.
Mark Blyth (author of "Austerity - The History of a Dangerous Idea") interviewed by C. J. Polychroniou for Truthout 16.2.14 "The rise in debt was a consequence of the lending crisis, not a spending crisis." "the greatest bait-and-switch in human history"
A Greek journalist who published the names of more than 2,000 of his compatriots who held Swiss bank accounts was acquitted on Thursday (1 November) in a case that touched a nerve over the role of tax evasion in the country's debt crisis.