Greece...

Graham_Devon

remorseless wrote: »

a moron?

Actually, yes.

Called Junker

mystic_trev

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P84tN0z4jqM&app=desktop

Thrugelmir

Graham_Devon wrote: »

It was a silly statement to make, granted.

But do you know what prompted the statement?

Brinkmanship.

BlondeHeadOn

Froggitt wrote: »

Telegraph this morning says Tsipras was expecting a yes vote, and hadn't prepared for what to do in the event of a no vote.

This gets better and better...


:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Graham_Devon

mystic_trev wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P84tN0z4jqM&app=desktop

Well theres an advert for unity of the union!

That was simply intimidation with no one shouting "Order".

remorseless

That goes for the NO vote!

Events have happened so fast, that Greeks have almost not had the opportunity to digest the news that after nearly six months of drama-filled negotiations they could soon be hit with a heavier austerity package than at any other time.

antrobus

Interesting Letter from Berlin in the latest Private Eye about the extent to which German companies bribed Greek officials in order to get Greek government contracts.

Two alleged factoids;

- not only was it once not a criminal offence in Germany to bribe foreign government officials, payments made were actually tax allowable until 2002

- the Greek army has more tanks than the UK, France and Germany put together.

Don't no about the former, but there is a site called http://www.globalfirepower.com which measures that sort of thing. (Good news; we're ranked No5 in the world.) According to them Greek Army does have 1,913 tanks, and we've only got 407.

That's quite a lot of tanks for a small country.

See: How German Companies Bribed Their Way to Greek Deals
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/complicit-in-corruption-how-german-companies-bribed-their-way-to-greek-deals-a-693973.html

TheBlueHorse

antrobus wrote: »

Interesting Letter from Berlin in the latest Private Eye about the extent to which German companies bribed Greek officials in order to get Greek government contracts.

Two alleged factoids;

- not only was it once not a criminal offence in Germany to bribe foreign government officials, payments made were actually tax allowable until 2002

- the Greek army has more tanks than the UK, France and Germany put together.

Don't no about the former, but there is a site called http://www.globalfirepower.com which measures that sort of thing. (Good news; we're ranked No5 in the world.) According to them Greek Army does have 1,913 tanks, and we've only got 407.

That's quite a lot of tanks for a small country.

See: How German Companies Bribed Their Way to Greek Deals
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/complicit-in-corruption-how-german-companies-bribed-their-way-to-greek-deals-a-693973.html

this is why their economy is tanking

buglawton

TheBlueHorse wrote: »

this is why their economy is tanking

When Russia financially annexes Greece, the usage of those tanks will become interesting.

remorseless

buglawton wrote: »

When Russia financially annexes Greece, the usage of those tanks will become interesting.

Russia is poor and they already have money pits!

After Crimea, Cyprus and sanctions, they have enuff problems as it is! Beside, don't think Russia and Greek style would blend well...so it'd be another headache!