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Offline Maik

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In favour of the EU
« on: Monday, 10 July, 2017 @ 02:21:26 »
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We should consider ourselves lucky. Imagine if Greece were not a member of the European Union and the eurozone, if it didn’t have institutions and justice officials who respect their role. At best, the country would be run as it was in the cursed 80s, when a minister could force approval of a loan or appoint his gardener to head a bank with a simple phone call. This is no longer the case, though there are those who think that oversight and procedures have put the political system in a straitjacket.

There are certain officials in the present government who would love to be able to rule that way, or even better, to have the kind of power enjoyed today by the cadres of Recep Tayyip Erdogan or Vladimir Putin. They’d love to decide who a major privatization would go to or who would get the broadcasting license of a bankrupt station. When they can’t, they have no qualms about expressing their hatred for the person or institution that prevented them.

The brutal truth is that such politicians would be free to do as they liked if Greece were not in the EU and still had the drachma.
http://www.ekathimerini.com/219885/opinion/ekathimerini/comment/safety-net


 :hmm: Might be a good point there.