Greece was bailed out first by Germany and France way back when the generals gave back democracy to the people.

That was when the EEC immediately accepted it as an EEC member and oiled Greece’s economy to a healthy state. But all the time the Greeks expected the EEC/EU to keep on financing their laziness, tax evasion and corruption. There’s a limit to this arrogance.

We Maltese had carried out the necessary economic reforms that have created a strong albeit small economy while the Greeks have failed miserably by clinging to their corrupt ‘ideals’ instigated by left-wing ideologies and politicians.

Whatever Joseph Muscat, Miriam Dalli and Angela Merkel say, Greece cannot pay the whole debt it owes and unless the public creditors accept a haircut on their loans, the country will never recover.

Probity should have been in place when German and French banks were lending Greece money without control.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanis_Varoufakis

You have to admire British journalists. After Varoufakis gave a tirade of anarchic-communist rhetoric, his interviewer asked him whether he was going to sell his house in London and invest the money in Greek banks.

The look on his face was priceless as was the disjointed response on how that was a private affair.

[Daphne – Wake up and listen to somebody who can’t even copy my name off the top of the page, and who thinks the outfit is called Goldman Sacs? I really don’t think so.]

Like Malta, the 70s dinosaurs have use boredom/anger etc and a new young maverick to put them into power and implement their unchanged agenda of forty years ago. the world and circumstances have changed in the meantime, but they do not recognize that change.

Chris, it is not true at all that the populist agenda of “Podemos” (“We Can”) is succeeding also in Spain.

The conservatives in Spain (PP) still have a massive lead – Podemos are taking the hardline socialist vote of disgruntled PSOE (Socialist Party) supporters, who would like the party to be militant, trade unionist, republican and revolutionary. PSOE is now more akin to the German social democrats than the Spanish communists, which is why Podemos has such populist backing. But it’s fragmenting the left, not taking votes away from the right.

Have you any clue of what he’s been saying for the past three years? Do you really know what the troika have been up to in Greece, and how they go about impoverishing and enslaving the euro-zone countries?

Imbaghad tiehu ghalik meta nsejjahlek Pollyanna.

You are so misguided you wouldn’t understand his perspective, anyway, but here’s a good interview for anyone who’s interested in what he says rather than in how he looks: http://youtu.be/FJP1Ysx47fo

[Daphne – No, Kevin, I didn’t say I dislike the way he dresses. Those are normal clothes; they’re just inappropriate to the job and occasion. I said something else: that clothes are communication, and what he’s communicating there is not his desire to shift the Greek economy.]