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Greek PM Tspiras faces party revolt over bailout deal |
2015-07-15 |
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Greece's leftwing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras faces a showdown with rebels in his own party on Tuesday furious at his capitulation to German demands for one of the most sweeping austerity packages ever demanded of a euro zone government. Just hours after a deal that saw Greece surrender much of its illusory sovereignty to outside supervision in return for agreeing to talks on an 86 billion euro ($95 billion) bailout, doubts were already emerging about whether Tsipras would be able to hold his government together. The terms imposed by international lenders led by Germany in all-night talks at an emergency summit obliged Tsipras to abandon promises of ending austerity. Instead he must pass legislation to cut pensions, increase value added tax, clamp down on collective bargaining agreements and put in place quasi-automatic spending constraints. In addition, he must set 50 billion euros of public sector assets aside to be sold off under the supervision of foreign lenders and get the whole package through parliament by Wednesday. |
Posted by:Fred |
#2 The Greece Bailout is repor linked to GERMANY'S econ recovery. IS THIS BAILOUT ABOUT ACTUALLY HELPING GREECE, OR ABOUT PCOORECTLY-DENIABLY FACILITATING/EMPOWERING THE RETURN OF GERMANY PER SE TO THE WORLD STAGE ... ... AND DID PUTIN KNOW??? [RUSSIA-DESIRED MILBASE(S) IN AEGEAN [Balkans?] here]. Anyhoo, * JAPAN TIMES > RIOTERS RAGE OUTSIDE AS GREEK PARLIAMENT DEBATES PAINFUL BAILOUT TERMS. * MANILA BULLETIN > GREEK GOVT. SUFFERS DEFECTIONS AS AUSTERITY VOTE LOOMS. * BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Guradian.UK] ATHENS TO VOTE AS IMF WARNS GREECE NEEDS EXTRA DEBT RELIEF [over +] ABOVE BAILOUT. * WAFF > [Daily Sabah] GREEK PM TSIPRAS APPEALS TO PARLIAMENT TO BACK BAILOUT. |
Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-07-15 22:13 |
#1 "wait! You told us we were going to get to spite the Germans!" |
Posted by: ed in texas 2015-07-15 08:11 |