Ah classic Varoufakis, booted by his own government after a few months.
“The most interesting intervention was the Lithuanian minister Sadzius, which went like this. ‘Did Varoufakis understand that the development in Lithuania was far below Greece? That the minimum wage in Lithuania was only 300€ and that they would like to increase it to 350€ but they couldnt afford that. But Lithuania still had to contribute to a loan for Greece so they could increase their minimum wage from 500€ to 700€ and while in Lithuania pensions rose only by 5€ a month, the new Greek government wanted an increase of 2€ a day. Did Varoufakis have a clear picture of reality? ‘“
“At the general meeting of the eurogroup on June 18, Varoufakis held a long speech. He proposed a ‘radical’ idea, the so called ‘deficit break’. He proposed an independent budgetauthority with an automatic stop if the deficit became too high. Disbelief was visible in the eyes of my colleagues. Did Varoufakis actually not realise that was a requirement for every euro country for years?”
The Lithuania claim is bollocks and just an appeal to the base sentiment. By that logic Greece should ask for any money it has sent back before Lithuania joined, since any EU funds Lithuania got include Greek contributions. But ofcourse that doesnt make sense because Greece also received funds by the EU, mostly coming from Germany, UK etc but these countries also got freedom of access to Greek ports, a more open markers etc etc. I could keep going, the point is that surpise, in an equal Union we share the burden. Greece didn't want to keep the wage up just because, thry wanted to keep the wage up because dropping it by 25% in a matter of months would just break the fucking economy, which it did. But hey Lithuanians can feel better about it for talking down Greece, and still didnt got their raise.
Ah, I remember when the entire European press started publishing hit pieces on the guy white refused to bow down to the system which will now impover Greece for decades to come. This subreddit gobbled it all up.
Ah classic Varoufakis, booted by his own government after a few months.
“The most interesting intervention was the Lithuanian minister Sadzius, which went like this. ‘Did Varoufakis understand that the development in Lithuania was far below Greece? That the minimum wage in Lithuania was only 300€ and that they would like to increase it to 350€ but they couldnt afford that. But Lithuania still had to contribute to a loan for Greece so they could increase their minimum wage from 500€ to 700€ and while in Lithuania pensions rose only by 5€ a month, the new Greek government wanted an increase of 2€ a day. Did Varoufakis have a clear picture of reality? ‘“
“At the general meeting of the eurogroup on June 18, Varoufakis held a long speech. He proposed a ‘radical’ idea, the so called ‘deficit break’. He proposed an independent budgetauthority with an automatic stop if the deficit became too high. Disbelief was visible in the eyes of my colleagues. Did Varoufakis actually not realise that was a requirement for every euro country for years?”
The Lithuania claim is bollocks and just an appeal to the base sentiment. By that logic Greece should ask for any money it has sent back before Lithuania joined, since any EU funds Lithuania got include Greek contributions. But ofcourse that doesnt make sense because Greece also received funds by the EU, mostly coming from Germany, UK etc but these countries also got freedom of access to Greek ports, a more open markers etc etc. I could keep going, the point is that surpise, in an equal Union we share the burden. Greece didn't want to keep the wage up just because, thry wanted to keep the wage up because dropping it by 25% in a matter of months would just break the fucking economy, which it did. But hey Lithuanians can feel better about it for talking down Greece, and still didnt got their raise.
Ah, I remember when the entire European press started publishing hit pieces on the guy white refused to bow down to the system which will now impover Greece for decades to come. This subreddit gobbled it all up.
Bullshit, every media ever ate him ip as the cool young guy with the leather jacket fightig the evil ‘brussels’ like always.