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2015-03-11 Europe

Greece Threatens Europe With Flood Of migrants

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Posted by Grunter 2015-03-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Negotiating with blackmailers are we, eh?

Write off the €240 billion, EU, and seal off the Greece border. You will never get yer money back. Bad bad debt.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2015-03-11 00:44|| 2015-03-11 00:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds like mexico and the US to me.

Posted by chris 2015-03-11 01:19|| 2015-03-11 01:19|| Front Page Top

#3 That's strange, Indonesia is also threatening Australia wid a flood of Migrants including possible Jihadis ... ...

* RUSSIA TODAY > INDONESIA THREATENS AUSTRALIA WID "TSUNAMI" OF ASYLUM-SEEKERS OVER DRUG SMUGGLER'S EXECUTION.

Unless the Aussies immediately ceases-n-desists from its harsh criticisms of Indonesia's policies in regards to criminal punishment.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-03-11 03:04|| 2015-03-11 03:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Er we're already flooded.

Greece Threatens lake with extra raindrops.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2015-03-11 06:42|| 2015-03-11 06:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Isn't that what the powers-that-are in Libya recently threatened?

Looks like everybody knows about this Achilles heal.

Posted by Hupineger Glomomp52169 2015-03-11 09:16|| 2015-03-11 09:16|| Front Page Top

#6 From An Nahar, datelined five hours ago:

Greece Gets Half-billion-euro Lifeline

In a rare piece of good news for Greek leaders, the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) confirmed Tuesday that it has been forced to throw the cash-strapped country a half-billion-euro lifeline.

After a week in which the Eurogroup of finance ministers and the European Central Bank turned the screws on Athens, the 555 million euros ($593 million) will give its radical new government a brief respite from its creditors.

In the increasingly fraught battle of wills with Brussels and Berlin, the decision is a rare victory for Athens with economist Edward Hugh tweeting, "Eurogroup just blinked."

The Luxembourg-based ESM had initially been reluctant to part with the money, according to the semi-official Athens news agency.

But with Greece having to find eight billion euros in March alone to meet its debts -- 1.5 billion of that to the IMF -- the relief the sum gives to the anti-austerity coalition is only relative.

Athens' surprise new windfall comes from prefential shares the Greek government took to recapitalise banks at the height of the financial crisis and from money later poured into the Hellenic Financial Stabilzation Fund (HFSF) as a part of a Europe-wide effort to guarantee the banks.

The facility fund was set up in 2010 to help keep banks afloat in EU countries initially worst hit by the crisis, including Greece, Ireland and Portugal.

ESM director general Klaus Regling had hinted after a crunch Eurogroup meeting in Brussels on Monday night that "we will certainly not have any claim on that amount" before the final confirmation came that the money could go back to Athens.

"The EFSF does not have a stake in this as this sum is related to activities that took place before the EFSF disbursed money to Greece," a spokesman for the fund said Tuesday.

Posted by trailing wife 2015-03-11 09:57|| 2015-03-11 09:57|| Front Page Top

#7 ...AND YOU NEVER GET RID OF THE ~~DANE~~ GREEK.

Posted by AlanC 2015-03-11 13:11|| 2015-03-11 13:11|| Front Page Top

#8 Wasn't something like this going on the last time civilization collapsed? Whatta they got besides the usual Avars, Huns, Vandals, Ostrogoths, and that sort of riff-raff?

Posted by Fred 2015-03-11 14:08|| 2015-03-11 14:08|| Front Page Top

#9 So the next Greek-Turk war will occur in Germany?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-03-11 14:39|| 2015-03-11 14:39|| Front Page Top

#10 Greeks have the idea! Vote Communist, then leave...

Posted by BigEdLB 2015-03-11 15:43|| 2015-03-11 15:43|| Front Page Top

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