Voor Duitse regering is ‘Grexit’ nu bespreekbaar

Der Spiegel:

Entgegen ihrer bisherigen Linie ist die Bundesregierung nach SPIEGEL-Informationen bereit, Griechenland notfalls aus der Eurozone ausscheiden zu lassen. Kanzlerin Angela Merkel und Finanzminister Wolfgang Schäuble (beide CDU) halten einen Austritt des Landes aus der Gemeinschaftswährung für verkraftbar. Grund dafür seien die Fortschritte, die die Eurozone seit dem Krisenhöhepunkt 2012 gemacht habe, heißt es in Regierungskreisen. So sei die Ansteckungsgefahr für andere Länder begrenzt, weil Portugal und Irland als saniert gelten. Zudem stehe mit dem ESM ein schlagkräftiger Rettungsmechanismus zur Verfügung, für die Sicherheit großer Kreditinstitute sorge die Bankenunion.

Want ook onbetaalbare schulden dienen te worden afgelost. Ongeacht de consequenties, dat wil zeggen het grandioze falen van ‘austerity’ in Griekenland:

Nowhere have austerity policies been more aggressively tried — and generally failed to live up to results promised by advocates — than in Greece. After more than four years of belt tightening, patience is wearing thin, and tentative signs of improvement have not yet trickled down into the lives of average Greeks. […]

Greeks grudgingly went along, assured that painful reform would return the country to growth by 2012. Instead, Greece lost 400,000 jobs that year and continued on a decline that would see a drop in the gross domestic product since 2008 not much different from the one experienced during the first five years of the United States’ Great Depression.

Greece’s unemployment rate was supposed to top out at 15 percent in 2012, according to International Monetary Fund calculations. But it roared to 25 percent that year, reached 27 percent in 2013 and has ticked downward only slightly since.

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But at the street level in Greece, there is little debate anymore, if there ever was. The images of suffering here have not been that different from the grainy black and white photos of the United States in the 1930s. Suicides have shot up. Cars sit abandoned in the streets. People sift garbage looking for food.

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