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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras looks on within his address to the Greek Parliament in Athens on June 5, 2015.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras looks on within his address to the Greek Parliament in Athens on June 5, 2015.
Tsipras is, of course, right; he had to call a referendum because the troika had delivered "an ultimatum towards Greek democracy and the Greek people." Indeed, "an ultimatum at odds with the founding principles and values of Europe."
But why? Because the apparently so sophisticated politico-economic web of European "institutions" - the EC, the Eurogroup, the ECB - had to come up with a serious political decision; and due, essentially, to their nasty mix of greed and incompetence, they were incapable of making it.
At least EU citizens now start to get the picture on who their enemy is: the non-transparent "institutions" who supposedly represent them.
The - so far — 240 billion euro bailout of Greece (which featured Greece being used to launder bailouts of French and German banks) has yielded a whole national economy shrinking by over 25%; widespread unemployment; and poverty soaring to unprecedented levels. And for the EU "institutions" - plus the IMF - there was never any Plan B; it was the euro-austerity way - a sort of economic Shock and Awe — or the (desperation) highway. The pretext was to "save the euro". What makes it even more absurd is that Germany simply couldn't care less if Greece defaults and a Grexit is inevitable.
And even though the EU operates in practice as a clumsy, reactionary behemoth, the puzzling spectacle remains of otherwise reputable intellectuals, such as Jurgen Habermas, denouncing the Syriza party as "nationalistic" and praising former Goldman Sachs golden boy, ECB president Mario Draghi.
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