Greece...

BlondeHeadOn

Generali wrote: »

Interesting times.

Of course if the Germans bankrupt Greece then they won't get their money. They might get a pretty unpleasant surprise at the beach this summer too.[/QUOTE]


What, like sand kicked all over their towels?

Generali

BlondeHeadOn wrote: »

Generali wrote: »

Interesting times.

Of course if the Germans bankrupt Greece then they won't get their money. They might get a pretty unpleasant surprise at the beach this summer too.[/QUOTE]


What, like sand kicked all over their towels?

That or maybe even worse:eek:

hugp_14_12

Hi

I am from Greece. All the people working in private and public sector and pensiners pay their taxes until last cent as they dont have another option and cant cheat. It is like in the UK that goverment know about the salary and tax the people for their earnings
It is a joke what u are reading in the newspapers

It is true that people that have shops, small companies hotels etc, can cheat as some of them can avoid to give receipts. This can happened in the UK as well but in Greece is more often

from the above you can understand that most of the Greeks are paying their taxes (after the crisis they are paying much more taxed than everywhere). Believe me is different what you may hear and different when you know something

antrobus

Corruption still alive and well in post-bailout Greece
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/03/greece-corruption-alive-and-well

Graham_Devon

Don't like the way this is going now

While Greece is, ultimately right here, it's digging up some history we don't want dug up and will, ultimately, incite hatred.

The Greek government has threatened to seize German property as compensation for a Nazi atrocity in World War Two.

Justice Minister Nikos Paraskevopoulos said he was ready to approve a Supreme Court ruling from 2000 backing payment to relatives of the 218 victims.

The debt-ridden government is already calling for Germany to pay billions of euros in wartime reparations.

But Germany insists the issue of compensation was settled in 1990, before the country was reunified.

It's just getting silly.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-31831694

Aberdeenangarse

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Don't like the way this is going now

While Greece is, ultimately right here, it's digging up some history we don't want dug up and will, ultimately, incite hatred.

It's just getting silly.

The story goes further, and does state that the Greeks do have a legal right to £19.7m of German assets under one single ruling, due to the massacre of 218 civilians in one Greek village, but Greece never acted on it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-31831694

They've got about as much chance as me getting compo for a 5hit meal I had in Athens 20 years ago, that gave me chronic food poisoning :eek:

vivatifosi

Hmmm... and the euro/dollar heading for parity.

There's an interesting bit in Forbes about the German War money. I was interested to see that some far left German politicians feel that the country has a moral obligation to pay it, even if it has been dismissed out of court...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/03/11/greece-raises-german-war-reparations-and-damages-again-germany-says-all-settled-already/

padington

I wonder if it's possible that Europe could enforce a Grexit, draw a line in the sand, show some teeth and we find the euro skyrocketing up as the markets back the action.

antrobus

padington wrote: »

I wonder if it's possible that Europe could enforce a Grexit, draw a line in the sand, show some teeth and we find the euro skyrocketing up as the markets back the action.

It's certainly more possible than the alternative scenario of Greece leaving of its own accord.

Loughton_Monkey

StevieJ wrote: »

Or the 4th Reich, there is more than one way to skin a monkey :eek:

...ouch....:mad: