Greek economy

[routsounmanman]

walsufnir said:

hentai_11 said:

walsufnir said:

mai said:

So what about Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Denmark or Ireland? Were they "worthy"?

That's a good question but I am not to judge and I am not the person who had the data to judge it. And I am not the person who made up the criteria. Thing is, the whole Euro topic is something that shows how democracy works (at least in Germany): Every 4 years you are allowed to elect people who dictate you what will happen.

There is a former German politician who said that is unfair to judge a government after election by their pre-election promises... this tells you what attitude they have towards the people they want them to vote.

Germany got the Euro because the government wanted it. No matter which party. Why weren't we able to vote for it? Because they knew we wouldn't want it. UK is a perfect example of this. It is absolutely ridiculous how we think that the world should function (see arabic spring) but democracy is only good for them if the common people do exactly what they want.

Do you remember when Ireland was to join EU? How many times did they do an election? "Let's vote until we get what we want".

The EU had criterias which had to be met to get the Euro. However the greek politicians cheated and faked their numbers to get the Euro. Here is a german link. (too lazy to search for an english one ...)

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/statistik-skandal-griechen-schummelten-sich-in-waehrungsunion-1.918589

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The Greece government lied and because of this, I as a German have to pay for it. And many others, too. This can't be right.

As a Greek I died in WW2 and paid afterwards, shaving off 50% of your debt. This can't be right.