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뭐 어쩌겠나...
부패한 전 정권이
은행가들 및 워싱턴의 똘마니 IMF 와 결탁하여
부정부패의 극을 달리며 만들어낸 파산의 현실...
EU 강제 가입을 추진했던 자들에 대한 심판은 제대로 이행 되었는가를 물어 봐야지..
유럽연합 강제 가입 직후 물가 세배 오르고 유가 폭등하고..결국
기술 격차와 환율 상으로 내부적인 국부를 빨리고 나니까 곧바로 IMF 차관을 추진하여
국민들 모두에게 빚더미의 굴레를 덮어 씌웠던 놈들 말이다..
최근 IMF 총재 크리스틴 라걀드는 우크라이나 포로쉔코 측에
자금 지원 추진하도록 하겠다고 제스춰를 취하고..
위에서 시켰으니 그리 했겠다만.. 헐헐..
결국 그리스의 현실은 국민의 몫으로만 남게 된 것...
허리띠를 졸라 매고 가난과 싸워 가며 더욱 깨어 나고 단합하여 주권을 되찾는 것이 전부..
멍 하니 정부에 기대어 복지기금의 달콤함에 빠져 있던 것도 지금 상황에 큰 몫을 했을 것..
무엇조다도 정부권력의 부정부패는 모든 것을 망치는 요인..
현재 자라나는 아이들의 미래까지도 갉아 먹는 것이 부정부패.
복지연금에 너무 기대지 말라.
행성의 현실에 있어 아직까지 이는
물질주의의 달콤함이 인간에게 주입하는 가장 치명적인 존재의 독인 게다.
행성 카르마의 현실이기도 하고..
아무리 보아도 ..
탐욕에 절여진 은행가들과
이들과 결탁했던 전직 대통령과 총리를 감옥에 보내고
자신들의 거주지인 집과 권리를 되찾았던 아일랜드의 사례가 귀감이 될 수 밖에 없는 현실..
전에도 체험 블로그에 썼다만,
도이모이 정책 및 경제개발 계획을 바지런히 추구했던 베트남 경우는
은행가들과 부패정치인의 결탁으로 정책 자체가 기반부터 흔들리고 나발이 나자
악질 은행가 4명을 체포하여 나무기둥에 매달아
총살형을 시키기도 했었던 전례가 있지 않은가 말이다...
암튼, 그리스 시리자 당의 추진사안 관련 기사에 대한 Ron 영감님 코멘트..
Ron: Tell me again why you think that Welfare governments are necessary and desireable for average citizens.
론: 복지를 추진하는 정부는 필요 불가결 하며 이것이 모든 일반 국민들의 소망이라고 여기는 이유를 다시 한 번 말해 봐 주라.
( = 지금 그리스의 상황을 보고도 그런 말이 나올 수 있느냐고 되묻는.. )
EU and Syriza prepare mass evictions in Greece
By Alex Lantier
Oct 30, 2015 - 8:11:40 AM
EU and Syriza prepare mass evictions in Greece
By Alex Lantier
28 October 2015
Just over a week after the Syriza-led government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras passed a new series of deep pension cuts, high-ranking European Union (EU) officials threatened to withhold bailout funding to Greece under the terms of the July agreement between the EU and Syriza. EU officials are demanding deeper cuts in exchange for paying out €2 billion from the total €86 billion loan for Greece.
“The payment that was planned for October, of the remaining €2 billion of the first €3 billion tranche, is delayed,” a high-ranking EU official told Germany’s Suddeutsche Zeitung. EU sources said that only 14 of the 48 “milestone” policies agreed to by Syriza had been implemented, and that talks with Greek officials had virtually broken down.
At the center of the controversy stand EU demands for further economic devastation in order to recapitalize Greek banks. They are demanding that Greece tighten its mortgage rules and begin implementing mass evictions of the 320,000 Greek households that are in arrears on mortgage payments.
If bank recapitalization is not done by the end of 2015, a new EU directive will come into force requiring Greek banks to confiscate a portion of all savings deposits over €100,000 (US$110,432) in order to shore up their balance sheets.
One of Tsipras’s election promises in Syriza’s September reelection campaign was that he would not allow mass evictions. After he trampled election promises in January to end EU austerity and in July not to cut pensions, however, such pledges are utterly worthless. Indeed, it appears that Syriza’s aim in the current talks is not to maintain existing protections against repossession, but to negotiate how far these protections will be slashed and how large the resulting wave of evictions will be.
Last week, Greek officials claimed that they were in a “tough battle” with the EU to maintain existing protections from eviction set up since the eruption of the 2008 economic crisis. The primary residences of lower-income and middle-income debtors are protected from repossession, as long as these residences are valued at under a limit of €250,000 (US$285,000).
“This is a major issue which we are in a tough battle over. We have repeatedly stressed that we are committed to protecting primary residences,” Greek government spokeswoman Olga Gerovasili told AP last Wednesday.
Gerovasili refused to comment, however, on reports that in its talks with the EU, Syriza was proposing to cut the new protection limit to €200,000, while lenders wanted to cut it to €120,000 or even to under €100,000. If the protection limit were cut to €120,000, 80 percent of Greek borrowers would have no protection from eviction.
EU officials are also negotiating further pension cuts with the Greek government. After the Greek parliament voted a 20 percent cut in minimum pensions to €392 per month and increased penalties for early retirement, Athens floated proposals for systemic reforms that would essentially mean the end to the right to a state-funded pension. Workers would receive instead a minimal state pension but would be forced to pay into another, supplementary pension scheme.
European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis pressed for further cuts along these lines in a visit to Athens yesterday. Calling for a pension system that is “financially viable in the medium to longer term,” Dombrovskis said: “We are talking about a systemic pension reform.”
Such plans underscore the deceitful and reactionary character of Syriza’s September election campaign. Having violated its promises to end EU austerity and having trampled the 61 percent “no” vote against austerity in the July 5 referendum, it campaigned on an explicitly pro-EU, pro-austerity basis. It cynically presented its austerity deal with the EU as proof that it would fight the EU harder than its predecessors in office, the right-wing New Democracy (ND) party.
The political agenda being implemented by Tsipras is a vindication of the World Socialist Web Site’s warnings that the petty-bourgeois forces of Syriza, schooled in postmodernist opposition to Marxism, would prove bitterly hostile to the working class. Now, Syriza and the EU are collaborating on both designing and implementing even more deep-going attacks on workers’ basic social rights than ND dared enforce.
The EU is continuing to pile political and financial pressure on Greece, making clear that it will demand vicious measures against the workers in exchange for whatever help it gives Greek banks.
Yesterday, the German tabloid Bild cited classified internal documents at Deutsche Bank stating that a haircut of Greece’s sovereign debt was “inevitable.” After the latest EU bailout added €86 billion to the debt pile, Greece’s public debt is on track to hit €340 billion this year, or 200 percent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Deutsche Bank reportedly believes that the debt should be reduced by about €200 billion, to €140 billion.
While French President François Hollande backed a proposal for a Greek debt haircut in his speech to the Greek parliament last week, it directly contradicts the positions of other leading EU officials, such as German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, who insisted during the bailout talks that any “haircut” would violate EU rules.
Statements by other European financial officials made clear, however, that any Greek debt haircut would aim only to create a somewhat more financially viable basis for the looting of Greece.
The EU is currently charging only minimal one percent interest on the nominal value of Greece’s unrepayable public debt. However, European officials are signaling that they would react to the reduction of Greece’s debt by jacking up interest rates, in order to keep up the flow of cash being extorted from the Greek people.
European Stability Mechanism (ESM) chief financial officer Christophe Frankel told Bloomberg News in an interview that interest rates on the Greek bailout would likely rise: “We can’t guarantee that the rate will remain at such a low level. We know that what we charge today is not what we will charge tomorrow and of course is very different from what we may charge in five years’ or ten years’ time.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/10/28/gree-o28.html
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http://abundanthope.net/pages/Political_Information_43/EU-and-Syriza-prepare-mass-evictions-in-Greece.shtml
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