Greece...

Graham_Devon

And in any case, do these people not get and read proposals BEFORE a meeting?! How bizzare is it for all these people, all speaking different languages to only get the proposals at the table and then start deciphering them individually....

Maybe that's just the way it works. It's quaint, I'll give it that. But seems ludicrously inefficient.

Surely, before everyone jumps on planes at god knows what cost to the EU, they would make sure there was something on the agenda to discuss?!

I can't see Tesco's gathering up all the managers from around the UK without first arming them with the proposals they are going to discuss.

wotsthat

I'm watching this tweet by tweet whilst glued to the news feeds on the Telegraph and Guardian sites. When I get a spare second between noise I'm on Google.

The amount of information I'm getting is immense - knowledge less so.

TheBlueHorse

if there is one thing the EU doesn't do, it is democracy. Within a week or so they will have imposed their own Technocrat Govt on the people of Greece who will dance to the EU tune.

EVER CLOSER UNION. NO DEMOCRACY. Just ask our elected president, Junker. Ah, I remember that campaign of his. He was so charismatic. No wonder I voted for him.

antrobus

remorseless wrote: »

Seriously - you can't make this stuff up even if you try!!!!



maybe they're just taking the p-iss!

Apperantly confirmed; Greece submitted "no concrete proposals".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-33426328

Just as well there's no urgency. It's not as if Greece has run out of money or anything serious like that.

remorseless

antrobus wrote: »

Just as well there's no urgency. It's not as if Greece has run out of money or anything serious like that.

Obviously capital controls are not a problem... they can stay few more days queuing, it's not like it is cold anyway!

Maybe Greece should have another Olympics, that'll solve everything for sure

Thrugelmir

TheBlueHorse wrote: »

if there is one thing the EU doesn't do, it is democracy. Within a week or so they will have imposed their own Technocrat Govt on the people of Greece who will dance to the EU tune.

Of course there's democracy. The EU will impose nothing on the Greek people without their agreement. Do not forget that the people have rejected the proposal on the table. The Greek Government therefore has to make it's own proposal. The other member states can only wait.

This is all going to end very bitterly.

remorseless

Thrugelmir wrote: »

This is all going to end very bitterly.

AG47

Hearing about about a bail-in anybody with savings over 8000 will have a huge chunk taken out to pay towards the interest owed, before banks open again.

Bet they wish they withdrew before the banks imposed capital controls.

ChiefGrasscutter

Beats me why the EU is waiting for new Greek proposals.
In case they have not noticed the Greek government has just won a resounding mandate for their approach - which was rejected previously by the EU

So it seems up to the EU to start being more "accommodating" - or to put it more bluntly which option does the EU want:
1 EU to give Greece say 30+% debt relief or
2.Greece to default 100% tells Merkel to shove her euros up her arrse and the EU gets nowt.

antrobus

AG47 wrote: »

Hearing about about a bail-in anybody with savings over 8000 will have a huge chunk taken out to pay towards the interest owed, before banks open again.

Bet they wish they withdrew before the banks imposed capital controls.

That would require Greece to leave both the Eurozone and the EU.