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Greece has 3 days to deliver or face consequences - EU officials

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  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
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    Clifford_Pope wrote: »
    Every week they have half as much patience as the week before.

    very funny
  • Thrugelmir
    Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite
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    Generali wrote: »
    German voters might get a little upset when they discover what happens when you bankrupt all your customers.

    Exports to Greece in particular Porsches dried up a while back I suspect. Germany is more dependent on China these days.
  • purch
    purch Posts: 9,865 Forumite
    Generali wrote: »
    German voters might get a little upset when they discover what happens when you bankrupt all your customers.

    Playing nicely with their neighbours and sharing their toys is not taught at German kindergartens
    'In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are Consequences.'
  • Delara
    Delara Posts: 43 Forumite
    woodgreen2013 wrote: »
    You hit the nail on the head. What is the other option? Default and the Euro collapsing? The Greeks have the Germans over a barrel.

    Something like this has to happen in the end. I mean really will Greece ever have a boom and be able to pay it all off? That will never happen.
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    purch wrote: »
    Playing nicely with their neighbours and sharing their toys is not taught at German kindergartens

    For the past decade or more the Germans have been letting everyone else use their toys in return for a promise for future toys which it appears dont exist!
  • MacMickster
    MacMickster Posts: 3,646 Forumite
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    Generali wrote: »
    For the past decade or more the Germans have been letting everyone else use their toys in return for a promise for future toys which it appears dont exist!

    What? That fiver I borrowed from you last week?

    Lend me a tenner. I'll give you your fiver back, and you can have your tenner back at the end of the month (but I might want to borrow 20 quid first). OK?

    Well if you won't lend me the tenner I can't repay the fiver, so you've lost that money.

    It seems that similar arguments are made by a nation and an Irish bank.

    Maybe Wonga should take over the IMF.
    "When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty." - Thomas Jefferson
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    purch wrote: »
    Playing nicely with their neighbours and sharing their toys is not taught at German kindergartens
    Since the 50s, Germans have settled for hard work and relatively low wages to build an economy, rather than mucking about with dodgy financial products and just selling the same houses to each other. Unlike much of the rest of Europe which has been constatly overpaying itself.

    I would suspect they will know concentrate on selling to other parts of the world.

    They do actually make stuff that people want to buy.
  • vivatifosi
    vivatifosi Posts: 18,746 Forumite
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    Really interesting blog from Philip Atticus on the Greek government not meeting the goals set:

    http://www.philip-atticus.com/
    Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    vivatifosi wrote: »
    Really interesting blog from Philip Atticus on the Greek government not meeting the goals set:

    http://www.philip-atticus.com/
    It appears then that Greece got into the Euro by lying and find it a habit they cannot break.
  • michaels
    michaels Posts: 29,221 Forumite
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    Minister for administrative reform...isn't that all to close to being minister for administrative affairs...Yes, Minister!
    I think....
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