Why Greece Should Reject the Latest Offer from Its Creditors | Foreign Policy
▻https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/06/12/why-greece-should-reject-the-latest-offer-from-its-creditors-germany-
Reform — Greece sorely needs it. Cash — the government is running desperately short of it. So it is time for Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to do what’s best for Greece and accept its creditors’ reform demands in exchange for much-needed cash. That is how the Greek situation is usually framed. It is utterly misleading.
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Why would Eurozone authorities be so cruel and foolish? Because they don’t really care about the welfare of ordinary Greeks. They aren’t even that bothered about whether the Greek government pays back the money that they forced European taxpayers to lend to it, ostensibly out of solidarity, but actually to bail out French and German banks and investors. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other Eurozone policymakers just don’t want to admit that they made a terrible mistake in 2010 and have lied about it since. So they want to be seen as standing up for Eurozone taxpayers’ interests, and they want Greeks to put up and shut up until Merkel and her minions are comfortably in retirement and it is someone else’s problem.
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The creditors’ insistence on reform is also disingenuous. Greece has been run by the institutions known as the Troika — the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the IMF — since May 2010. They have had every opportunity to insist on the reforms they are now demanding. Yet they kept on funding Greece because all they cared about was the fiscal targets (and wage cuts to boost “competitiveness”). The sudden focus on reform is primarily about forcing Tsipras to break the promises that got him elected in January.
L’auteur, Philippe Legrain, est présenté ainsi par FP
Philippe Legrain, who was economic advisor to the president of the European Commission from 2011 to 2014, is a visiting senior fellow at the London School of Economics’ European Institute and the author of European Spring: Why Our Economies and Politics Are in a Mess — and How to Put Them Right.
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Article plus ou moins repris sur _Libération
Grèce : face à Bruxelles et au FMI, le « dilemme du prisonnier » - Libération
▻http://www.liberation.fr/monde/2015/06/12/grece-face-a-bruxelles-et-au-fmi-le-dilemme-du-prisonnier_1328228
Alors que le FMI a claqué jeudi la porte des négociations avec la Grèce, l’intransigeance et la cacophonie des créanciers placent Athènes face à un choix insoutenable.